What Can New Survey Data Tell Us about Recent Changes in Distribution and Poverty?, Issue 1694World Bank, Policy Research Department, Poverty and Human Resources Divions, 1996 - Cost and standard of living - 36 pages |
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64 spells aggregate amongst attenuation bias average consumption average living standards Central Asia Change in log correlation data set developing countries distribution and poverty distributional data Distributional trend dummy variables East Asia Eastern Europe error term Excluding EECA fixed effects Full sample Gini index growth elasticity growth in average increase in poverty inequality and polarization initial mean Latin America levels of living living below $1/day Lorenz curve mean consumption mean rate measured poverty measurement errors National Accounts Non-EECA OLS estimate overall percentage polarization fell polarization index poor poverty fell poverty gap index poverty incidence poverty measures poverty rates poverty reduction proportion Purchasing Power Parity rate of change rate of growth rates of poverty Ravallion reducing poverty regression relationships of interest rising average rural rich South Asia standard errors structure of measurement Sub-Saharan Africa survey data survey mean Table transfer principle white noise World Bank worsening