Book Chapter

Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Game theory
• Poverty
• Welfare economics

Book Chapter

Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Economic growth
• Equality and inequality
• Microeconomics

Book Chapter

Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Household survey
• Poverty measurement
• Welfare economics

Book Chapter

Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty

Blog

by Tony Addison August 2012

Tony Addison With this issue, Angle returns refreshed from its Nordic summer break. The sun continues to shine on the Baltic, although it is getting...

• Environment
• Children
• Climate change

Blog

by Tony Addison December 2011

Tony Addison With the end of the year fast approaching, we bring you the last Angle of 2011. Here in Helsinki, the shortest day of the year is nearly...

• Finance
• Climate change
• Right of property

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

The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using data from the third Cameroonian Household Consumption Surveys, the price elasticities are obtained from a Quadratic Almost Ideal...

• Food supply
• Households
• Prices

Working Paper

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first-order dominance...

• Economic growth
• Poverty
• Public welfare

Working Paper

At the end of the 1980s, Côte d’Ivoire entered a deep macroeconomic crisis that put an end to the often-praised ‘Ivorian miracle’. After the death of the founding father Houphouet-Boigny, unrestrained political competition added to bad economic...

• Household survey
• Poverty measurement
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country’s poor people live in the north and households find it difficult to hold back their productive assets during the lean season. This study...

• Agriculture
• Welfare economics
• Climate change

Policy Brief

In simple language and with numerous concrete examples, this policy brief analyses the impact - among others - of key ex-ante factors such as acute 'horizontal inequality' between social groups in the distribution of assets, state jobs, social...

• Equality and inequality
• International relations
• Social conflict

Policy Brief

The objective of this research and policy brief is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely inconsistent with the forces of the political economy...

• Land reform
• Land tenure
• Land use

Journal Special Issue

• Economic development
• Human capital
• Poverty

Working Paper

In this paper, we convey the concept of first-order dominance (FOD) with particular focus on applications to multidimensional population welfare comparisons. We give an account of the fundamental equivalent definitions of FOD, illustrated with simple...

• Welfare economics

Working Paper

After years of economic decline, conflict, and instability, the Democratic Republic of Congo achieved rapid economic growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent growth has...

• Children
• Poverty
• Public welfare

Working Paper

Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted...

• Food security
• Quality of life
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using...

• Game theory
• Microeconomics
• Poverty

Working Paper

This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we consider a long time period so as to compare the current situation with the pre-war situation, allowing us to assess whether the...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty

Working Paper

In this paper we make welfare comparisons among districts of Zambia using multidimensional well-being indicators observed at the household level using the first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. in 2012. This approach allows welfare...

• Game theory
• Poverty
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

South Africa has exhibited tepid economic growth over the past twenty years as well as high levels of income inequality characteristic of a middle income country growth trap. This paper compares and contrasts South Africa’s growth trap relative to...

• Economic growth
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Industrial policy

Working Paper

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis of...

• Economic growth
• Equality and inequality
• Microeconomics

Working Paper

This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among households in Togo according to the characteristics of household heads. The study is based on the most recent survey (QUIBB 2006) and...

• Equality and inequality
• Income distribution
• Index numbers (Economics)

Working Paper

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that accounts for...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Game theory
• Health

Working Paper

As in much of sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania has attained rapid economic growth accompanied by only marginal reductions in poverty. Is this mismatch between high economic growth and less significant poverty reduction due to how growth and poverty are...

• Economic growth
• Game theory
• Poverty measurement

Working Paper

This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement. Development practitioners worldwide increasingly recognize...

• Economic development
• Economic growth
• Equality and inequality

Policy Brief

This Policy Brief is an outcome of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Social Development Indicators'. The overall aim of the project was to provide insights into how human well-being might be better conceptualized and, in particular, measured, by...

• Economic development
• Methodology (Economics)
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

In this paper we argue that the recent evidence on individuals’ decision making is of high relevance for the measurement of poverty when switching from a static and certain to a dynamic and uncertain framework. The numerous proposed measures of multi...

• Microeconomics
• Poverty measurement
• Uncertainty

Working Paper

A one-good, representative consumer model of the pre-reform consumer sector of transition economies is developed. An equation is derived that permits empirical estimation of the welfare effect of price liberalization. Empirical estimates are...

• Deregulation
• Economic policy
• Prices

Working Paper

We use Arndt and Simler’s (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Because two major political crises occurred between the survey periods, the snapshots of national...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty

Working Paper

We use Arndt and Simler’s utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the decade...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty

Working Paper

The recent history of Zaire presents a unique opportunity to understand and explain humanitarian emergencies. This monograph follows an inductive approach in analysing the trajectory of state-building in Zaire as a significant explanatory variable of...

• Humanitarian assistance
• Political science
• Poverty

Working Paper

The transition from plan to market has fundamentally transformed the social structure in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The small Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan exemplifies these changes.Using data from nationally...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Post-communism

Working Paper

• History of economists
• Public welfare
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

Already in the 1950s it became clear that, in spite of its widespread use, the per capita gross national product is an insufficient measure of the well-being of citizens. Thus, in 1954, an expert group within the United Nations suggested that one...

• Equality and inequality
• Poverty
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

The poverty mapping methodology for estimating welfare rankings from small areas has proven to be useful in guiding allocation of government funds, regional planning, and general policy formulation. Nevertheless, poverty mapping also suffers from a...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditure
• Methodology (Poverty)

Working Paper

Relying on a general equilibrium model of Argentina’s economy calibrated for 1993 and internalizing all productivity and scale gains achieved up to 1999, this paper isolates the distributional effects of utilities reform from the impact of other...

• Industrial productivity
• Macroeconomics
• Privatization

Working Paper

This paper analyses the privatization of utilities in Bolivia, detailing the particularities of the capitalization mechanism which was used for this purpose. The analysis suggests that capitalization and regulation, and the liberalization of the...

• Foreign investments
• Poverty
• Privatization

Working Paper

This study assesses the evolution of inequality in Uruguay during 1981-2010, considered as subperiods built on the basis of the main policy regimes observed: extreme right (1981-84), centre-right (1985-89), right (1990-2004), and centre-left (2005-10...

• Education
• Income distribution
• Decision making (Public administration)

Working Paper

This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare...

• Children
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Poverty

Journal Article

This paper studies some empirical implications of models with limited risk sharing due to the imperfect enforceability of contracts. We test whether the amount by which public transfers reduce private transfers is affected by features of the economy...

• Education
• Health
• Households

Journal Article

Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. Despite these mechanisms...

• Banking
• Financial crisis
• Financial institutions

Working Paper

Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be...

• Economic development
• Education
• National security

Research Brief

Innovations in social protection systems design have moved forward quickly on the supply-side over the past decade. But the same degree of creativity has not been applied to the equally critical demand-side constraints to social protection. Without...

• Labour unions
• Social movement
• Social security

Journal Article

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

• Equality and inequality
• Poverty
• Poverty measurement

Journal Article

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

• Poverty
• Risk management
• Uncertainty

Book Chapter

Part of Book Falling Inequality in Latin America

• Economic policy
• Equality and inequality
• Social security

Working Paper

Identifying the poorest for selection into social transfer programmes is a major challenge facing programme implementers. An innovative cash transfer programme in northern Kenya trialed three targeting mechanisms to learn lessons about which approach...

• Government policy (Poor)
• Poverty measurement
• Methodology (Poverty)