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  • How Accurate Is a Poverty Map Based on Remote Sensing Data ? An Application to Malawi (English)

    This paper assesses the reliability of poverty maps derived from remote-sensing data. Employing data for Malawi, it first obtains small area estimates of poverty by combining the Malawi household expenditure...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10171 Document Date: September 13, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Der Weide,Roy,Blankespoor,Brian,Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Peter F.

  • The world bank economic review 28 (3) (English)

    This paper is organized in following headings: can we trust shoestring evaluations?; evaluation of development programs: randomized controlled trials or regressions?; effects of Colombia’s social protection...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 113050 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ravallion,Martin,Elbers,Chris T.M.,Gunning,Jan Willem,Camacho,Adriana,Conover,Emily,Hoyos,Alejandro,Fitzsimons,Emla Olivia Anne,Mesnard,Alice,Desai,Raj M.,Joshi,Shareen,Gajate-Garrido,Gissele,Blanc,Elodie,Strobl,Eric

  • Evaluation of development programs : randomized controlled trials or regressions? (English)

    Can project evaluation methods be used to evaluate programs: complex interventions involving multiple activities? A program evaluation cannot be based simply on separate evaluations of its components if...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 112413 Document Date: September 7, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Gunning,Jan Willem

  • Evaluation of development programs : randomized controlled trials or regressions ? (English)

    Can project evaluation methods be used to evaluate programs: complex interventions involving multiple activities? A program evaluation cannot be based simply on separate evaluations of its components if...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6587 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Gunning,Jan Willem

  • Brazil within Brazil : testing the poverty map methodology in Minas Gerais (English)

    The small-area estimation technique developed for producing poverty maps has been applied in a large number of developing countries. Opportunities to formally test the validity of this approach remain...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4513 Document Date: February 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Pereira Guimaraes Leite,Phillippe George

  • How good a map ? Putting small area estimation to the test (English)

    The authors examine the performance of small area welfare estimation. The method combines census and survey data to produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4155 Document Date: March 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Demombynes,Gabriel,Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Jean O.,Lanjouw,Peter F.

  • The World Bank economic review 21 (1) (English)

    This issue includes the following: growth and risk: methodology and micro evidence; by Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning, and Bill Kinsey. Dollars, debt, and international financial institutions: dedollarizing...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 45346 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Gunning,Jan Willem,Kinsey,Bill H., Levy Yeyat, Eduardo,Fiess,Norbert Matthias,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Jack,William G.,O'Donnell,Owen Andrew,Van Doorslaer,Eddy K.A.,Rannan-Eliya,Ravindra Prasan,Somanathan,Aparnaa,Adhikari,Shiva Raj, Harbianto Den, Garg Charu C, Hanuorauongchai, Piya, N. Hug, Mohammed,Karan Anup, M. Leung, Gabriel, Wan Ng, Chiu, Raj Pande, Badri, Tin, Keith, Tisayaticom, Kanjana,Trisnantoro,Laksono,Zhang,Yuhui,Zhao,Yuxin,Pradhan,Menno Prasad,Saadah,Fadia M.,Sparrow,Robert A., Pfaffenzeller, Stephan, Newbold, Paul, Rayner, Anthony,Nicita,Alessandro,Olarreaga,Marcelo

  • Growth and risk : methodology and micro evidence (English)

    How exposure to risk affects economic growth is a key issue in development. This article quantifies both the ex ante and ex post effects of risk using long-running panel data for rural households in Zimbabwe...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77533 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Gunning,Jan Willem,Kinsey,Bill H.

  • Re-interpreting sub-group inequality decompositions (English)

    The authors propose a modification to the conventional approach of decomposing income inequality by population sub-groups. Specifically, they propose a measure that evaluates observed between-group inequality...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3687 Document Date: August 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Ozler,Berk

  • Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting : how much does disaggregation help? (English)

    Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3419 Document Date: October 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Ozler,Berk,Fujii,Tomoki,Yin,Wesley E.

  • On the unequal inequality of poor communities (English)

    Communities differ in important ways in their needs, capacities, and circumstances. Because central governments are not able to discern these differences fully, they seek to achieve their policy objectives...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77480 Document Date: September 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Ozler,Berk,Simler,Kenneth

  • The World Bank economic review 18 (3) (English)

    Trade policy and poverty reduction in Brazil by Glenn W Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, and Angelo Gurgel; Trade liberalization and industry wage structure: evidence from Brazil by Nina...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 38878 Document Date: September 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blom,Andreas,Cadot,Olivier,Chaudbury, Nazmul,Elbers,Chris T.M.,Galasso,Emanuela,Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou,Gurgel,Angelo C.,Hammer,Jeffrey S.,Harrison,Glenn W.,Jayaraman,Rajshri Marie,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Ozler,Berk,Pavcnik,Nina,Ravallion,Martin,Rutherford,Thomas F.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Simler,Kenneth,Tarr, David G.,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • On the unequal inequality of poor communities (English)

    Important differences exist between communities with respect to their needs, capacities, and circumstances. As central governments are not able to discern these differences fully, they seek to achieve...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3313 Document Date: May 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Ozler,Berk,Simler,Kenneth