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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
– Estimating Local Inequality in Three Developing Countries
From the book:
Spatial Inequality and Development
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This paper investigates the relationship between criminal activity and geographical isolation. Using data from Madagascar, we show that, after we control for population composition and risk factors, crime increases with distance from urban centers and, with few exceptions, decreases with population...
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Spatial Issues in Africa
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Based on a statistical procedure that combines household survey data with population census data, this paper presents estimates of inequality for three developing countries at a level of disaggregation far below that allowed by household surveys alone. We show that while the share of within...
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