Documentos e Relatórios
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Poverty in India during the 1990s - a regional perspective (Inglês)
The authors provide estimates of poverty at the regional level in India, spanning the 1990s. Such estimates have not been previously available due to concerns regarding non-comparability of the 1993-94...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS3141 Data do documento: 31 de outubro de 2003 Autor: Yoko Kijima,Lanjouw, Peter
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Micro-level estimation of welfare (Inglês)
The authors construct and derive the properties of estimators of welfare that take advantage of the detailed information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS2911 Data do documento: 31 de outubro de 2002 Autor: Elbers, Chris,Lanjouw, Jean O.,Lanjouw, Peter
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Rural non-farm activities and rural development : from experience towards strategy (Inglês)
This paper presents an overview of the rural non-farm economy in developing countries at the start of the 21st century and maps out the available policy options. Following the introduction, Chapter 2 delineates...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 22818 Data do documento: 31 de agosto de 2001 Autor: Lanjouw, Peter,Feder, Gershon
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Benefit incidence, public spending reforms, and the timing of program capture (Inglês)
Assessments of the distributional effects of public spending reforms have generally been based on average rates of program participation by income or expenditure group. This practice can be deceptive because...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 77291 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 1999 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Lanjouw, Peter, Ravallion, Martin
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Household welfare measurement and the pricing of basic services (Inglês)
The authors discuss when and how to adjust expenditures derived from household surveys to reflect the consumption of basic services. They discuss simple adjustment methods for markets that are subsidized...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS2006 Data do documento: 30 de novembro de 1998 Autor: Hentschel, Jesko,Lanjouw, Peter
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Using disaggregated poverty maps to plan sectoral investments (Inglês)
This poverty note analyzes the usefulness of poverty maps, and how they can be constructed using census and survey data, for the use and benefit of policy makers to focus scarce development resources...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 18570 Data do documento: 31 de maio de 1998 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Hentschel, Jesko,Lanjouw, Peter
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The evolution of poverty and inequality in Indian villages (Inglês)
The authors review longitudinal village studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to identify changes in living standards in rural India in recent decades. They scrutinize the main forces of...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS1870 Data do documento: 31 de janeiro de 1998 Autor: Jayraman, Raji,Lanjouw, Peter
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Poverty comparisons with non-compatible data: theory and illustrations (Inglês)
Comparisons of poverty rates are only rarely based on identical underlying definitions of welfare. The authors examine the sensitivity of poverty rates calculated from alternative definitions of consumption...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS1709 Data do documento: 31 de janeiro de 1997 Autor: Lanjouw, Jean Olson,Lanjouw, Peter