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Book Chapter
– Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide Shocks
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Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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– Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide Shocks
We use Arndt and Simler’s (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Because two major political crises occurred between the survey periods, the snapshots of national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6 per...
Book Chapter
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Food Security
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Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both ‘qualitative-subjective’ and ‘quantitative-objective’ indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjective-type information is scarce, especially...
Book Chapter
– Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries
From the book:
Growth, Inequality and Poverty
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– Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries
This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of disaggregation that to date have not generally been available. The methodology is based on a statistical procedure to combine household survey data with population census data, imputing...
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