What Is Behind The Decline in Poverty Since 2000? Evidence from Bangladesh, Peru, and Thailand

This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here generates entire counterfactual distributions to account for th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Inchauste, Gabriela, Olivieri, Sergio, Saavedra, Jamie, Winkler, Hernan
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12149