The Nature and Dynamics of Poverty Determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s
The author investigates the determinants and dynamics of poverty during the five-year growth period that followed the 1994 CFA franc devaluation in Burkina Faso. Results show that the nature and dynamics of poverty determinants are influenced by th...
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okr-10986-147952021-04-23T14:03:20Z The Nature and Dynamics of Poverty Determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s Fofack, Hippolyte ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE TERMS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AVERAGE AGE AVERAGE INCOME CDF CORRELATION ANALYSIS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DATA COLLECTION DATA SETS DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE DEPENDENCY RATIO DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DIVERSIFICATION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT EDUCATION LEVEL EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPLOYMENT ESTIMATED COEFFICIENT EXPLANATORY VARIABLES FEMALE LITERACY GDP GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH PROSPECTS HEADCOUNT INDEX HOUSEHOLD ASSETS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LABOR HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME GROUPS INCOME LEVEL INDEPENDENT VARIABLE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INFLATION LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKETS MACROECONOMICS MARGINAL EFFECT MEAN VALUE MEDICAL SERVICES NATIONAL LEVEL NEGATIVE SIGN NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR INDIVIDUALS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAP POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PRIORITY SURVEY PRODUCTIVE ASSETS RANDOM SAMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING REGIONAL POVERTY RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SAMPLE SELECTION SAMPLE SIZE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION SUBSISTENCE FARMERS TERMS OF TRADE URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS URBAN POVERTY WELFARE EFFECTS POVERTY EVALUATION METHODS FRANC ZONE POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY INCIDENCE AGE DETERMINATIONS ASSETS AMENITIES ASSET OWNERSHIP QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUANTITATIVE DATA POVERTY MEASUREMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INDICATORS The author investigates the determinants and dynamics of poverty during the five-year growth period that followed the 1994 CFA franc devaluation in Burkina Faso. Results show that the nature and dynamics of poverty determinants are influenced by the spatial location of households and that the post-devaluation growth period did not significantly alter the pattern of poverty determinants. The most significant determinants of poverty over the growth period include the burden of age dependency, human and physical assets, household amenities, and spatial location. Though consistently significant at the national level, the direction of association between these determinants and welfare depends on their nature. While the burden of age dependency is consistently negatively associated with welfare, asset ownership is positively associated. The probability of being poor declines with increasing share of household assets and increases with the burden of age dependency. There are some variations at the regional level, however, shown by the difference in the scope of significance of these determinants. While the ratio of age dependency remains the most significant determinant of rural poverty, its explanatory power decreases considerably in urban areas where its marginal effect on the probability of being poor is relatively low over the two reference periods, despite the significance of the probit coefficient and the relatively low asymptotic standard error. 2013-08-05T16:28:20Z 2013-08-05T16:28:20Z 2002-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/1798587/nature-dynamics-poverty-determinants-burkina-faso-1990s http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14795 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No.2847 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, D.C. Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Burkina Faso |
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE TERMS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AVERAGE AGE AVERAGE INCOME CDF CORRELATION ANALYSIS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DATA COLLECTION DATA SETS DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE DEPENDENCY RATIO DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DIVERSIFICATION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT EDUCATION LEVEL EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPLOYMENT ESTIMATED COEFFICIENT EXPLANATORY VARIABLES FEMALE LITERACY GDP GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH PROSPECTS HEADCOUNT INDEX HOUSEHOLD ASSETS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LABOR HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME GROUPS INCOME LEVEL INDEPENDENT VARIABLE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INFLATION LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKETS MACROECONOMICS MARGINAL EFFECT MEAN VALUE MEDICAL SERVICES NATIONAL LEVEL NEGATIVE SIGN NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR INDIVIDUALS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAP POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PRIORITY SURVEY PRODUCTIVE ASSETS RANDOM SAMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING REGIONAL POVERTY RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SAMPLE SELECTION SAMPLE SIZE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION SUBSISTENCE FARMERS TERMS OF TRADE URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS URBAN POVERTY WELFARE EFFECTS POVERTY EVALUATION METHODS FRANC ZONE POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY INCIDENCE AGE DETERMINATIONS ASSETS AMENITIES ASSET OWNERSHIP QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUANTITATIVE DATA POVERTY MEASUREMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INDICATORS |
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE TERMS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AVERAGE AGE AVERAGE INCOME CDF CORRELATION ANALYSIS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DATA COLLECTION DATA SETS DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE DEPENDENCY RATIO DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DIVERSIFICATION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT EDUCATION LEVEL EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPLOYMENT ESTIMATED COEFFICIENT EXPLANATORY VARIABLES FEMALE LITERACY GDP GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH PROSPECTS HEADCOUNT INDEX HOUSEHOLD ASSETS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LABOR HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME GROUPS INCOME LEVEL INDEPENDENT VARIABLE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INFLATION LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKETS MACROECONOMICS MARGINAL EFFECT MEAN VALUE MEDICAL SERVICES NATIONAL LEVEL NEGATIVE SIGN NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR INDIVIDUALS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAP POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PRIORITY SURVEY PRODUCTIVE ASSETS RANDOM SAMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING REGIONAL POVERTY RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SAMPLE SELECTION SAMPLE SIZE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION SUBSISTENCE FARMERS TERMS OF TRADE URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS URBAN POVERTY WELFARE EFFECTS POVERTY EVALUATION METHODS FRANC ZONE POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY INCIDENCE AGE DETERMINATIONS ASSETS AMENITIES ASSET OWNERSHIP QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUANTITATIVE DATA POVERTY MEASUREMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INDICATORS Fofack, Hippolyte The Nature and Dynamics of Poverty Determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s |
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The author investigates the determinants
and dynamics of poverty during the five-year growth period
that followed the 1994 CFA franc devaluation in Burkina
Faso. Results show that the nature and dynamics of poverty
determinants are influenced by the spatial location of
households and that the post-devaluation growth period did
not significantly alter the pattern of poverty determinants.
The most significant determinants of poverty over the growth
period include the burden of age dependency, human and
physical assets, household amenities, and spatial location.
Though consistently significant at the national level, the
direction of association between these determinants and
welfare depends on their nature. While the burden of age
dependency is consistently negatively associated with
welfare, asset ownership is positively associated. The
probability of being poor declines with increasing share of
household assets and increases with the burden of age
dependency. There are some variations at the regional level,
however, shown by the difference in the scope of
significance of these determinants. While the ratio of age
dependency remains the most significant determinant of rural
poverty, its explanatory power decreases considerably in
urban areas where its marginal effect on the probability of
being poor is relatively low over the two reference periods,
despite the significance of the probit coefficient and the
relatively low asymptotic standard error. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Fofack, Hippolyte |
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Fofack, Hippolyte |
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Fofack, Hippolyte |
| title |
The Nature and Dynamics of Poverty Determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s |
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The Nature and Dynamics of Poverty Determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s |
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The Nature and Dynamics of Poverty Determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s |
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The Nature and Dynamics of Poverty Determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s |
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The Nature and Dynamics of Poverty Determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s |
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nature and dynamics of poverty determinants in burkina faso in the 1990s |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C. |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/1798587/nature-dynamics-poverty-determinants-burkina-faso-1990s http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14795 |
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