Vasco Molini
Biographic Data
| ID | 5029296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vasco Molini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vasco |
| FAMILY NAME | Molini |
| SIGNATURE | MOLINI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4010-9583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Facing displacement and a global pandemic
We use novel survey data to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Libya. Our analysis compares the effects of the pandemic for displaced and non-displaced citizens, controlling for individual and household characteristics and geo-localized measures of economic activity and conflict intensity. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID-19, while 24.7% …
Does gender equality in labor participation bring equality? Evidence from developing and developed countries
Estimation of Multidimensional Poverty in Morocco
Job Displacement and Reallocation Failure
This paper investigates the effects of severe drought shocks in Morocco’s agriculture sector. Using a staggered difference-in-differences design, the estimates show that climatic shocks produced job displacement of about 6.5 percentage points for workers who were exposed to severe drought events. Overall, about 45 percent of these workers remained unemployed, generating a partial reallocation failure. The effects are significant only for severe a…
Is Inequality Systematically Underestimated in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Proposal to Overcome the Problem
In Africa, evidence on the interactions among poverty, growth, and income distribution presents a puzzle: While growth has been robust in recent decades, the growth elasticity of poverty has remained low. This suggests that inequality has dampened the pro-poor effects of growth. However, when using standard inequality measures, there is only scattered evidence of high and growing inequality in Africa outside the extremely unequal southern cone. T…
Polarization and its discontents
This paper uses data from three Moroccan household surveys between 2001 to 2013 to address issues related to the so-called “Arab inequality puzzle”. Welfare inequalities are low and declining in Arab countries and exist against a growing sense of dissatisfaction and frustration. The paper hypothesizes that welfare inequality plays a role in explanation, if seen through the lens of absolute measures and notably absolute polarization. The paper arg…
Migration in Libya
Migration In Libya
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses this unique source of data, combining several techniques to analyze various dimensions of migration in Libya. First, the paper provides a detailed description of the demographic characteristics and national comp…
We forgot the middle class! Inequality underestimation in a changing Sub-Saharan Africa
Vulnerability to stunting in the West African Sahel
Education is forbidden
No Condition is Permanent
The economic debate on the existence and definition of the middle class has become particularly lively in many developing countries. Building on a recently developed framework called the Vulnerability Approach to Middle Class (VAMC) to define the middle class, this paper tries to estimate the size of the Nigerian middle class in a rigorous quantitative manner and to gauge its evolution over time. Using the VAMC method, the middle class group can …
All that Glitters is not Gold
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Internal Migration and Household Welfare in Ghana
This papers investigates to what extent internal migration contributes to improving households' welfare in Ghana. Using the most recent and nationally representative household survey (Ghana Living Standards Survey 2012/13), the estimates indicate that on average migration increases consumption significantly, and the effect is driven by households migrating from inland regions to the coastal areas of the country. The analysis also finds heterogene…
Are We Confusing Poverty with Preferences?
Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the poor is becoming popular. A context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with preferences. This paper provides theoretical and empirical evidence that the contrary holds and that the national poverty line is more appropriate for comparing living standards among the poor, at least under prevailing conditions in Mozambique and Ghana. The problem lie…
No Condition is Permanent
The economic debate on existence and definition of the middle class has become particularly lively in many developing countries. Despite this growing interest, the identification of the middle class group in these countries remains quite challenging. Building on a recently developed framework to define the middle class, this paper tries to estimate the Nigerian middle class size in a rigorous quantitative manner. By exploiting publicly available …
Poverty Reduction in Ghana—Progress and Challenges
Ghana over the past two decades has enjoyed steady and robust growth, mainly through a modification in its economic structure: as the economy gradually shifted out of agriculture and into services, the country experienced noticeable advances in productivity. Agriculture's share of value added to GDP has declined at a faster rate since 2005, whereas the share of services has remained virtually unchanged. Employment has adjusted in line with the ch…
Poverty in Mozambique
This paper has three primary objectives: (i) to investigate potential problems regarding Mozambique's most recent nationally representative household survey on poverty dynamics; (ii) to assess the robustness and reliability of official poverty statistics; and (iii) to provide alternative estimates of poverty and welfare indicators in light of the methodological and analytical issues raised in areas (i) and (ii). It is determined that at least two…
Adult BMI as a Health and Nutritional Inequality Measure
Safety Nets and Index‐Based Insurance
This article considers index‐based safety nets aimed at assuring participants a minimum income at the village level, set by a prespecified poverty line. The participating villages collectively manage a pooled budget, offering an index‐based per capita indemnity to the villages financed from a uniform per hectare premium, possibly supplemented by an external subsidy. The scheme involves implicit cross‐subsidies in favor of the poorest villages. Ot…
Adult BMI as a Health and Nutritional Inequality Measure
Safety Nets and Index‐Based Insurance
This article considers index‐based safety nets aimed at assuring participants a minimum income at the village level, set by a prespecified poverty line. The participating villages collectively manage a pooled budget, offering an index‐based per capita indemnity to the villages financed from a uniform per hectare premium, possibly supplemented by an external subsidy. The scheme involves implicit cross‐subsidies in favor of the poorest villages. Ot…
Poverty in Mozambique
This paper has three primary objectives: (i) to investigate potential problems regarding Mozambique's most recent nationally representative household survey on poverty dynamics; (ii) to assess the robustness and reliability of official poverty statistics; and (iii) to provide alternative estimates of poverty and welfare indicators in light of the methodological and analytical issues raised in areas (i) and (ii). It is determined that at least two…
Are We Confusing Poverty with Preferences?
Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the poor is becoming popular. A context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with preferences. This paper provides theoretical and empirical evidence that the contrary holds and that the national poverty line is more appropriate for comparing living standards among the poor, at least under prevailing conditions in Mozambique and Ghana. The problem lie…
No Condition is Permanent
The economic debate on existence and definition of the middle class has become particularly lively in many developing countries. Despite this growing interest, the identification of the middle class group in these countries remains quite challenging. Building on a recently developed framework to define the middle class, this paper tries to estimate the Nigerian middle class size in a rigorous quantitative manner. By exploiting publicly available …
Poverty Reduction in Ghana—Progress and Challenges
Ghana over the past two decades has enjoyed steady and robust growth, mainly through a modification in its economic structure: as the economy gradually shifted out of agriculture and into services, the country experienced noticeable advances in productivity. Agriculture's share of value added to GDP has declined at a faster rate since 2005, whereas the share of services has remained virtually unchanged. Employment has adjusted in line with the ch…
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Internal Migration and Household Welfare in Ghana
This papers investigates to what extent internal migration contributes to improving households' welfare in Ghana. Using the most recent and nationally representative household survey (Ghana Living Standards Survey 2012/13), the estimates indicate that on average migration increases consumption significantly, and the effect is driven by households migrating from inland regions to the coastal areas of the country. The analysis also finds heterogene…
No Condition is Permanent
The economic debate on the existence and definition of the middle class has become particularly lively in many developing countries. Building on a recently developed framework called the Vulnerability Approach to Middle Class (VAMC) to define the middle class, this paper tries to estimate the size of the Nigerian middle class in a rigorous quantitative manner and to gauge its evolution over time. Using the VAMC method, the middle class group can …
All that Glitters is not Gold
Vulnerability to stunting in the West African Sahel
Education is forbidden
Migration In Libya
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses this unique source of data, combining several techniques to analyze various dimensions of migration in Libya. First, the paper provides a detailed description of the demographic characteristics and national comp…
We forgot the middle class! Inequality underestimation in a changing Sub-Saharan Africa
Is Inequality Systematically Underestimated in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Proposal to Overcome the Problem
In Africa, evidence on the interactions among poverty, growth, and income distribution presents a puzzle: While growth has been robust in recent decades, the growth elasticity of poverty has remained low. This suggests that inequality has dampened the pro-poor effects of growth. However, when using standard inequality measures, there is only scattered evidence of high and growing inequality in Africa outside the extremely unequal southern cone. T…
Polarization and its discontents
This paper uses data from three Moroccan household surveys between 2001 to 2013 to address issues related to the so-called “Arab inequality puzzle”. Welfare inequalities are low and declining in Arab countries and exist against a growing sense of dissatisfaction and frustration. The paper hypothesizes that welfare inequality plays a role in explanation, if seen through the lens of absolute measures and notably absolute polarization. The paper arg…
Migration in Libya
Job Displacement and Reallocation Failure
This paper investigates the effects of severe drought shocks in Morocco’s agriculture sector. Using a staggered difference-in-differences design, the estimates show that climatic shocks produced job displacement of about 6.5 percentage points for workers who were exposed to severe drought events. Overall, about 45 percent of these workers remained unemployed, generating a partial reallocation failure. The effects are significant only for severe a…
Facing displacement and a global pandemic
We use novel survey data to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Libya. Our analysis compares the effects of the pandemic for displaced and non-displaced citizens, controlling for individual and household characteristics and geo-localized measures of economic activity and conflict intensity. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID-19, while 24.7% …
Does gender equality in labor participation bring equality? Evidence from developing and developed countries
Estimation of Multidimensional Poverty in Morocco
Economics (19 works) · Geography (14 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Poverty (7 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works)