Assessing poverty and distributional impacts of the global crisis in the Philippines : a microsimulation approach (English)

As the financial crisis has spread through the world, the lack of real-time data has made it difficult to track its impact in developing countries. This paper uses a micro-simulation approach to assess the poverty and distributional effects of the crisis in the Philippines. The authors find increases in both the level and the depth of aggregate poverty. Income shocks are relatively large in the middle part of the income distribution. They also find...

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Habib,Bilal;

Narayan,Ambar;

Olivieri,Sergio Daniel;

Sanchez,Carolina;
Document Date
2010/04/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS5286
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Assessing poverty and distributional impacts of the global crisis in the Philippines : a microsimulation approach
Keywords
labor income

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Habib,Bilal; Narayan,Ambar; Olivieri,Sergio Daniel; Sanchez,Carolina.

Assessing poverty and distributional impacts of the global crisis in the Philippines : a microsimulation approach (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5286 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/313241468325795515

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