Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes
The international community has declared poverty reduction one of the fundamental objectives of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of development interventions. This creates the need for a sound understanding of the...
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okr-10986-32382021-04-23T14:02:08Z Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes Essama-Nssah, B. ACCOUNTING AGRICULTURE BENCHMARK BUDGET CONSTRAINTS CDF COMPETITIVE MARKETS CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK CONSUMER CHOICE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS COUNTERFACTUAL DECISION MAKING DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISPOSABLE INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMIC WELFARE ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTS EXPECTED VALUE EXPECTED VALUES EXPENDITURE FINANCIAL CRISIS FISHING FIXED INPUTS GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH RATE IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INCOME EFFECT INCOME EFFECTS INCOME INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERVENTION LABOR DEMAND LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LIVING STANDARDS LORENZ CURVE MARGINAL UTILITY MARGINAL VALUE MARKET WAGE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION NORMAL GOOD OPPORTUNITY COST OPTIMIZATION POLICY INSTRUMENTS POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY OUTCOMES POVERTY REDUCTION PRICE EFFECT PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS REGRESSION ANALYSIS RELEVANT MARKETS SAMPLE SIZE SELECTION BIAS SUBSTITUTES SUBSTITUTION SUPPLY CURVE SUPPLY FUNCTION SUPPLY FUNCTIONS TARGETED INTERVENTIONS TAX RATES TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS TREATMENT EFFECTS UNEMPLOYMENT UTILITY FUNCTION VARIABLE COSTS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGE INCOME WAGE RATES WAGES WELFARE FUNCTION The international community has declared poverty reduction one of the fundamental objectives of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of development interventions. This creates the need for a sound understanding of the fundamental factors that account for observed variations in poverty outcomes either over time or across space. Consistent with the view that such an understanding entails deeper micro empirical work on growth and distributional change, this paper reviews existing decomposition methods that can be used to identify sources of variation in poverty. The maintained hypothesis is that the living standard of an individual is a pay-off from her participation in the life of society. In that sense, individual outcomes depend on endowments, behavior and the circumstances that determine the returns to those endowments in any social transaction. To identify the contribution of each of these factors to changes in poverty, the statistical and structural methods reviewed in this paper all rely on the notion of ceteris paribus variation. This entails the comparison of an observed outcome distribution to a counterfactual obtained by changing one factor at a time while holding all the other factors constant. 2012-03-19T17:28:53Z 2012-03-19T17:28:53Z 2012-01-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20120118105412 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3238 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5954 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper The World Region The World Region |
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ACCOUNTING AGRICULTURE BENCHMARK BUDGET CONSTRAINTS CDF COMPETITIVE MARKETS CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK CONSUMER CHOICE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS COUNTERFACTUAL DECISION MAKING DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISPOSABLE INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMIC WELFARE ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTS EXPECTED VALUE EXPECTED VALUES EXPENDITURE FINANCIAL CRISIS FISHING FIXED INPUTS GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH RATE IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INCOME EFFECT INCOME EFFECTS INCOME INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERVENTION LABOR DEMAND LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LIVING STANDARDS LORENZ CURVE MARGINAL UTILITY MARGINAL VALUE MARKET WAGE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION NORMAL GOOD OPPORTUNITY COST OPTIMIZATION POLICY INSTRUMENTS POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY OUTCOMES POVERTY REDUCTION PRICE EFFECT PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS REGRESSION ANALYSIS RELEVANT MARKETS SAMPLE SIZE SELECTION BIAS SUBSTITUTES SUBSTITUTION SUPPLY CURVE SUPPLY FUNCTION SUPPLY FUNCTIONS TARGETED INTERVENTIONS TAX RATES TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS TREATMENT EFFECTS UNEMPLOYMENT UTILITY FUNCTION VARIABLE COSTS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGE INCOME WAGE RATES WAGES WELFARE FUNCTION |
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ACCOUNTING AGRICULTURE BENCHMARK BUDGET CONSTRAINTS CDF COMPETITIVE MARKETS CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK CONSUMER CHOICE CONSUMPTION PATTERNS COUNTERFACTUAL DECISION MAKING DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISPOSABLE INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMIC WELFARE ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTS EXPECTED VALUE EXPECTED VALUES EXPENDITURE FINANCIAL CRISIS FISHING FIXED INPUTS GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH RATE IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INCOME EFFECT INCOME EFFECTS INCOME INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERVENTION LABOR DEMAND LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LIVING STANDARDS LORENZ CURVE MARGINAL UTILITY MARGINAL VALUE MARKET WAGE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION NORMAL GOOD OPPORTUNITY COST OPTIMIZATION POLICY INSTRUMENTS POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY OUTCOMES POVERTY REDUCTION PRICE EFFECT PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS REGRESSION ANALYSIS RELEVANT MARKETS SAMPLE SIZE SELECTION BIAS SUBSTITUTES SUBSTITUTION SUPPLY CURVE SUPPLY FUNCTION SUPPLY FUNCTIONS TARGETED INTERVENTIONS TAX RATES TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS TREATMENT EFFECTS UNEMPLOYMENT UTILITY FUNCTION VARIABLE COSTS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGE INCOME WAGE RATES WAGES WELFARE FUNCTION Essama-Nssah, B. Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes |
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The international community has declared
poverty reduction one of the fundamental objectives of
development, and therefore a metric for assessing the
effectiveness of development interventions. This creates the
need for a sound understanding of the fundamental factors
that account for observed variations in poverty outcomes
either over time or across space. Consistent with the view
that such an understanding entails deeper micro empirical
work on growth and distributional change, this paper reviews
existing decomposition methods that can be used to identify
sources of variation in poverty. The maintained hypothesis
is that the living standard of an individual is a pay-off
from her participation in the life of society. In that
sense, individual outcomes depend on endowments, behavior
and the circumstances that determine the returns to those
endowments in any social transaction. To identify the
contribution of each of these factors to changes in poverty,
the statistical and structural methods reviewed in this
paper all rely on the notion of ceteris paribus variation.
This entails the comparison of an observed outcome
distribution to a counterfactual obtained by changing one
factor at a time while holding all the other factors constant. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Essama-Nssah, B. |
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Essama-Nssah, B. |
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Essama-Nssah, B. |
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Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes |
| title_short |
Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes |
| title_full |
Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes |
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Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes |
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Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes |
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identification of sources of variation in poverty outcomes |
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2012 |
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http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20120118105412 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3238 |
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