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Understanding Changes in Poverty

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dc.contributor.authorVan Nguyen, Trang
dc.contributor.authorInchauste, Gabriela
dc.contributor.authorAzevedo, João Pedro
dc.contributor.authorEssama-Nssah, B.
dc.contributor.authorOlivieri, Sergio
dc.contributor.authorSaavedra-Chanduvi, Jaime
dc.contributor.authorWinkler, Hernan
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-19T18:39:35Z
dc.date.available2014-08-19T18:39:35Z
dc.date.issued2014-08-12
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction from changes in individual and household characteristics, including changes in the sectoral, occupational, and educational structure of the workforce, as well as changes in the returns to individual and household characteristics. Understanding Changes in Poverty implements these approaches and finds that labor income growth that is, growth in income per worker rather than an increase in the number of employed workers was the largest contributor to moderate poverty reduction in 21 countries experiencing substantial reductions in poverty over the past decade. Changes in demographics, public transfers, and remittances helped, but made relatively smaller contributions to poverty reduction. Further decompositions in three countries find that labor income grew mainly because of higher returns to human capital endowments, signaling increases in productivity, higher relative price of labor, or both. Understanding Changes in Poverty will be of particular relevance to development practitioners interested in better understanding distributional changes over time. The methods and tools presented in this book can also be applied to better understand changes in inequality or any other distributional change.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20107647/understanding-changes-poverty
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/978-1-4648-0299-7
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4648-0299-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/19445
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank Group, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDirections in Development--Poverty;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectAGGREGATE POVERTY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL WORKERS
dc.subjectAVERAGE INCOME
dc.subjectAVERAGE WAGES
dc.subjectCASH TRANSFERS
dc.subjectCHANGES IN POVERTY
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION AGGREGATE
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION POVERTY
dc.subjectCOUNTERFACTUAL
dc.subjectCUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectCUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
dc.subjectDECLINE IN POVERTY
dc.subjectDECOMPOSABLE POVERTY
dc.subjectDECOMPOSABLE POVERTY MEASURES
dc.subjectDECOMPOSITION METHODOLOGY
dc.subjectDECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES
dc.subjectDENSITY FUNCTION
dc.subjectDEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subjectDEVELOPING WORLD
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT GOALS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT REPORT
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTION OF LAND
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGE
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES
dc.subjectDISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMICS
dc.subjectEMPIRICAL REGULARITIES
dc.subjectESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS
dc.subjectEX ANTE ANALYSIS
dc.subjectEXTREME POVERTY
dc.subjectEXTREME POVERTY LINE
dc.subjectFAMILY INCOME
dc.subjectFAMILY MEMBERS
dc.subjectFARM HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectFARM INCOME
dc.subjectFARM SECTOR
dc.subjectFINANCIAL CRISIS
dc.subjectFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectFINANCIAL MARKETS
dc.subjectFLEXIBILITY
dc.subjectFOOD PRICES
dc.subjectFUNCTIONAL FORM
dc.subjectGLOBAL POVERTY
dc.subjectGROWTH EFFECT
dc.subjectGROWTH PATTERN
dc.subjectGROWTH PROCESS
dc.subjectGROWTH RATE
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD INCOMES
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL ENDOWMENTS
dc.subjectIMPACT EVALUATION
dc.subjectIMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectINCIDENCE ANALYSIS
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
dc.subjectINCOME DYNAMICS
dc.subjectINCOME GROWTH
dc.subjectINCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subjectINCOME REDISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectINCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES
dc.subjectINEQUALITY CONSTANT
dc.subjectINEQUALITY MEASURES
dc.subjectINTERVENTION
dc.subjectLABOR FORCE
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectLIVING STANDARDS
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC SHOCKS
dc.subjectMARGINAL EFFECT
dc.subjectMEAN INCOME
dc.subjectNATIONAL POVERTY
dc.subjectNATIONAL POVERTY HEADCOUNT
dc.subjectNUTRITION
dc.subjectPER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectPOLICY MAKERS
dc.subjectPOLICY RESEARCH
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectPOOR
dc.subjectPOPULATION SHARE
dc.subjectPOVERTY CHANGE
dc.subjectPOVERTY CHANGES
dc.subjectPOVERTY DYNAMICS
dc.subjectPOVERTY GAP
dc.subjectPOVERTY GAP INDEX
dc.subjectPOVERTY HEADCOUNT RATES
dc.subjectPOVERTY IMPACT
dc.subjectPOVERTY IMPACTS
dc.subjectPOVERTY LEVEL
dc.subjectPOVERTY LEVELS
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINE
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINES
dc.subjectPOVERTY MEASURE
dc.subjectPOVERTY MEASUREMENT
dc.subjectPOVERTY MEASURES
dc.subjectPOVERTY OUTCOMES
dc.subjectPOVERTY RATE
dc.subjectPOVERTY RATES
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS
dc.subjectPOVERTY SEVERITY
dc.subjectPRIVATE TRANSFERS
dc.subjectPRO-POOR
dc.subjectPRO-POOR GROWTH
dc.subjectPROGRAM EVALUATION
dc.subjectPUBLIC EXPENDITURE
dc.subjectPUBLIC POLICY
dc.subjectQUALITY OF PUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subjectREDUCING POVERTY
dc.subjectREDUCTION IN POVERTY
dc.subjectREGIONAL COMPOSITION
dc.subjectRELATIVE IMPORTANCE
dc.subjectRELATIVE INEQUALITY
dc.subjectRURAL INCOME
dc.subjectSAFETY NET
dc.subjectSAFETY NET PROGRAMS
dc.subjectSAVINGS
dc.subjectSECTORAL COMPOSITION
dc.subjectSOCIAL POLICIES
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subjectTRANSFER PROGRAMS
dc.subjectUNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY
dc.subjectWAGE DIFFERENTIALS
dc.subjectWELFARE INDICATOR
dc.subjectWELFARE MEASURE
dc.titleUnderstanding Changes in Povertyen
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okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topicServices and Transfers to Poor
okr.topicPoverty Monitoring and Analysis
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Regional Economic Development
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
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