Measuring Aggregate Welfare in Developing Countries : How Well Do National Accounts and Surveys Agree?

In a data set for developing, and transition economies, the author finds that private consumption per capita, based on national accounts, deviates on average from mean household income, or expenditure based on national sample surveys. Growth rates...

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Main Author:	Ravallion, Martin
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY AGGREGATE OUTPUT CAPITAL CONTROLS CAPITAL FLIGHT CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION GROWTH COUNTRY SIZE CRIME DATA COLLECTION DATA SET DATA SETS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DIRECT INVESTMENT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC CONTRACTION ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC WELFARE ECONOMISTS ELASTICITIES EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATE REGIME EXPENDITURES GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH REGRESSIONS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HUMAN CAPITAL IMPORTS INCOME INCOME COMPONENTS INCOME SOURCES INCOMES INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY CONVERGENCE INSURANCE INVENTORIES JOB CREATION LABOR DEMAND LIBERALIZATION LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL INSTITUTIONS LONG RUN MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE MEAN EXPENDITURE MEAN INCOME MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL INCOME NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTING 0 HYPOTHESIS OUTPUT GROWTH POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL PARTIES POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY REDUCTION PREDICTED CHANGE PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES SAVINGS STANDARD OF LIVING STATISTICAL SYSTEMS TRANSITION COUNTRIES TRANSITION ECONOMIES TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/08/1570714/measuring-aggregate-welfare-developing-countries-well-national-accounts-surveys-agree http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19561

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/08/1570714/measuring-aggregate-welfare-developing-countries-well-national-accounts-surveys-agree
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19561

Measuring Aggregate Welfare in Developing Countries : How Well Do National Accounts and Surveys Agree?

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