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by Tony Addison October 2011

Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle. Regular...

• Consumption
• Democracy
• Distribution

Blog

Luc Christiaensen and Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen If a person suddenly becomes poor, for example, due to an unexpected death or illness in the family...

• Children
• Consumption
• Poverty measurement

Working Paper

This paper investigates how two effects drive wedges between nominal and real inequality estimates. The effects are caused by (i) differences in the composition of consumption over the income distribution coupled with differential inflation of...

• Consumption
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty measurement

Working Paper

The paper proposes an analysis of the recent distributional dynamics in Uganda. This analysis is performed by endorsing an opportunity egalitarian perspective, in order to evaluate the outcome dynamics of specific groups of the population and infer...

• Consumption
• Equality and inequality
• Income distribution

Working Paper

This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial ‘thick’ surveys of the...

• Consumption
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

The poor can and do save, but often use formal or informal instruments that have high risk, high cost, and limited functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioural frictions. Undersaving can have...

• Banking
• Choice
• Consumption

Working Paper

• Consumption
• Food security
• Health

Working Paper

• Classical economics
• Consumption
• Decision making

Working Paper

This paper aims to assess the impact that the impoverishment process has had on IPD health dynamics and micronutrient-related morbidity via the changes which have occurred in food consumption in terms of average intake, its distribution and the...

• Consumption
• Economic conditions
• Health

Working Paper

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in the...

• Consumption
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty

Working Paper

This paper reviews the evidence on the ‘inclusiveness’ of the growth in consumption expenditure that has occurred in India over the last four decades or so. The notion of dynamic inclusiveness is framed in terms of imagined normative allocations of...

• Consumption
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

Current explanations for private consumption’s diminished role in China focus on the expansion of exports and investments. Using structural path analysis, we find additional contributing factors. First, growth patterns during 1997-2007 favoured...

• Consumption
• Households
• Regional economics

Working Paper

In the absence of health insurance, households have to self-insure against the risk of ill health, which may involve the use of mechanisms that have long-term consequences. This study analyses whether Mexican households are able to smooth consumption...

• Public insurance
• Consumption
• Catastrophic risks

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics

• Banking
• Choice
• Consumption

Working Paper

This paper studies the impact of uncertainty and debt crisis on the dynamics of the Mozambican economy over the last two decades. Investment boom and accelerated growth did not take place until peace and economic reforms were assured, helped by the...

• Consumption
• Public debt
• Macroeconomics

Book Chapter

Part of Book New Sources of Development Finance

• Carbon tax
• Consumption
• Environment