Salman Zaidi

Biographic Data

ID6233005
NAMESalman Zaidi
GIVEN NAMESSalman
FAMILY NAMEZaidi
SIGNATUREZAIDI S
AFFILIATIONSPoverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, South Asia Region, The World Bank, USA
ORCID0000-0003-3429-7001
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • Governance and Public Service Delivery in Europe and Central Asia

    Mame Fatou Diagne, Dena Ringold et al.BOOK2012

    Using data from the 2010 Life in \n Transition Survey, this paper examines the levels of \n citizens' satisfaction with public service delivery in \n Europe and Central Asia and identifies some factors that may \n help explain variation in utilization and levels of \n satisfaction with service delivery. It finds satisfaction \n with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia to \n be relatively high, and, despite the adverse economic and …

  • Main Drivers Of Income Inequality In Central European And Baltic Countries - Some Insights From Recent Household Survey Data

    Salman ZaidiBOOK2009

    Present levels of income inequality in Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia remain considerably higher than their pre-transition levels, although the relative pace of change over time has varied quite a bit across countries. Using data from the 2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions, this paper finds that prevailing levels of income inequality in these countries continue to be low…

  • Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

    Salman Zaidi, Asad Alam et al.BOOKSatisfaction with life and…2009

    No AccessWorld Bank Working Papers12 Aug 2013Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet UnionSome Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition SurveyAuthors/Editors: Salman Zaidi, Asad Alam, and Pradeep K. MitraSalman Zaidi, Asad Alam, and Pradeep K. Mitrahttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7900-4SectionsAboutPDF (3.3 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abst…

  • Poverty Trends in Bangladesh during the 1990s

    Open AccessRinku Murgai, Salman ZaidiARTICLEJournal of Developing Societies2005References: 3

    Analysis of data from various Bangladesh Household Expenditure Surveys suggests considerable progress at poverty reduction during the 1990s. About 50 percent of the country’s population lived below the poverty line in 2000 compared to 59 percent in 1991–2. Poverty in rural areas continues to be higher than in urban areas, but the gap between rural and urban areas has narrowed as rural growth has been relatively more propoor. While the survey data…

  • Effectiveness of Food Assistance Programs in Bangladesh

    Open AccessRinku Murgai, Salman ZaidiARTICLEJournal of Developing Societies2005Cited by: 1References: 10

    Bangladesh boasts a wide array of targeted food assistance programs that strive to achieve a number of important developmental objectives. Findings from the 2000 Household Income and Expenditure Survey suggest that these programs are reasonably well-targeted towards the poor. Most of the pro-poor targeting is due to targeting the poor within communities rather than central actions to target poor areas. However, any definitive conclusions about th…

  • Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis

    Angus Deaton, Salman ZaidiBOOKGuidelines for Constructing…2002

    An analyst using household survey data to construct a welfare metric is often confronted with onfronted with An analyst using household survey data to construct a welfare metric is often confronted with a number of theoretical and practical problems. What components should be included in the overall welfare measure? Should differences in tastes be taken into account when making comparisons across people and households? How best should differences…