B Essama‐Nssah
Biographic Data
| ID | 6854434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Essama‐Nssah |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Essama‐Nssah |
| SIGNATURE | NSSAH B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Counterfactual Decomposition of Pro-Poorness Using Influence Functions
Poverty reduction has emerged as a fundamental social objective of development, and has become a metric commonly used to assess the performance of public policy. This paper adapts the methodology of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009) [2009. “Unconditional Quantile Regressions.” Econometrica 77 (3): 953–973] to the measurement of the pro-poorness of income growth. The method allows the analyst to identify covariates that affect poverty reduction. Th…
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction from changes in individual and household characteristics, including changes in the sectoral, occupationa…
Too little too late
The authors use regression analysis to \n assess the potential welfare impact of rainfall shocks in \n rural Indonesia. In particular, they consider two shocks: \n (i) a delay in the onset of monsoon and (ii) a significant \n shortfall in the amount of rain in the 90 day post-onset \n period. Focusing on households with family farm businesses, \n the analysis finds that a delay in the monsoon onset does \n not have a significant impact on the wel…
Measuring The Pro-Poorness Of Income Growth Within An Elasticity Framework
Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a measure of pro-poorness defined as a weighted average of the deviation of a growth patt…
A Unified Framework for Pro-Poor Growth Analysis
"Starting with a general impact indicator as an evaluation criterion, Essama-Nssah offers an integrative framework for a unified discussion of various concepts and measures of pro-poor growth emerging from the current literature. He shows that whether economic growth is considered pro-poor depends fundamentally on the choice of evaluative weights. In addition, the author's framework leads to a new indicator of the rate of pro-poor growth that can…
Too little too late
The authors use regression analysis to \n assess the potential welfare impact of rainfall shocks in \n rural Indonesia. In particular, they consider two shocks: \n (i) a delay in the onset of monsoon and (ii) a significant \n shortfall in the amount of rain in the 90 day post-onset \n period. Focusing on households with family farm businesses, \n the analysis finds that a delay in the monsoon onset does \n not have a significant impact on the wel…
Counterfactual Decomposition of Pro-Poorness Using Influence Functions
Poverty reduction has emerged as a fundamental social objective of development, and has become a metric commonly used to assess the performance of public policy. This paper adapts the methodology of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009) [2009. “Unconditional Quantile Regressions.” Econometrica 77 (3): 953–973] to the measurement of the pro-poorness of income growth. The method allows the analyst to identify covariates that affect poverty reduction. Th…
A Unified Framework for Pro-Poor Growth Analysis
"Starting with a general impact indicator as an evaluation criterion, Essama-Nssah offers an integrative framework for a unified discussion of various concepts and measures of pro-poor growth emerging from the current literature. He shows that whether economic growth is considered pro-poor depends fundamentally on the choice of evaluative weights. In addition, the author's framework leads to a new indicator of the rate of pro-poor growth that can…
Measuring The Pro-Poorness Of Income Growth Within An Elasticity Framework
Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a measure of pro-poorness defined as a weighted average of the deviation of a growth patt…
Too little too late
The authors use regression analysis to \n assess the potential welfare impact of rainfall shocks in \n rural Indonesia. In particular, they consider two shocks: \n (i) a delay in the onset of monsoon and (ii) a significant \n shortfall in the amount of rain in the 90 day post-onset \n period. Focusing on households with family farm businesses, \n the analysis finds that a delay in the monsoon onset does \n not have a significant impact on the wel…
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction from changes in individual and household characteristics, including changes in the sectoral, occupationa…
Counterfactual Decomposition of Pro-Poorness Using Influence Functions
Poverty reduction has emerged as a fundamental social objective of development, and has become a metric commonly used to assess the performance of public policy. This paper adapts the methodology of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009) [2009. “Unconditional Quantile Regressions.” Econometrica 77 (3): 953–973] to the measurement of the pro-poorness of income growth. The method allows the analyst to identify covariates that affect poverty reduction. Th…
Economics (4 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (4 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Poverty (2 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)