Bob Baulch
Biographic Data
| ID | 86140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bob Baulch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bob |
| FAMILY NAME | Baulch |
| SIGNATURE | BAULCH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1977-5802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi
This paper proposes a new approach to monitoring farmer prices in low-income developing countries. This crowdsourcing approach involves broadcasting radio jingles inviting farmers to report the prices and locations at which they sold their crops to a toll-free call centre, with weekly prizes to incentivize reporting. An application to Malawi illustrates the feasibility of this approach in a setting where internet connectivity is limited but mobil…
The changing distribution of land in rural Vietnam, 2004–2014
Malawi’s slowly changing employment landscape and its implications for youth
We examine Malawi’s employment landscape between 2004/05 and 2016/17, focusing on sectoral change and youth entering the workforce. Little evidence of a structural transformation in cross sectoral patterns of employment is found. The share of employment in agriculture rose slightly over the period, though the share of full time equivalent jobs declined in the sector. The analysis shows that younger youth are not participating in the limited emplo…
The Poverty Focus of Swedish Bilateral Aid: A Comparative Analysis
Assets and Poverty Traps in Rural Bangladesh
Using longitudinal survey from rural Bangladesh, this article examines the determinants of land and asset accumulation over time and explores why some households may be trapped in asset poverty. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to discern the shape of the asset accumulation path, and whether unique or multiple equilibria exist. We find evidence for concavity of the dynamic asset frontier but no evidence for multiple equilibria. It i…
Parallel Realities: Exploring Poverty Dynamics Using Mixed Methods in Rural Bangladesh
This paper explores the implications of using two methodological approaches to study poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh. Using data from a unique longitudinal study, we show how different methods lead to very different assessments of socio-economic mobility. We suggest five ways of reconciling these differences: considering assets in addition to expenditures, proximity to the poverty line, other aspects of well-being, household division, and qu…
Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa
Contents: Foreword David Hulme Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Africa and Asia Bob Baulch 1. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996-97 to 2006-07 Agnes Quisumbing 2. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004 Stefan Dercon and Catherine Porter 3. The Determinants and Consequences of Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Nepal, 1995-96 to 2003-04 Saurav Dev Bhatta and…
Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa
This edited book analyses what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. The distinguishing feature of these studies, which were commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, is they span longer periods or have more survey waves than most developing country panels. This allows a detailed account of the maintainers of chronic poverty and drive…
Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam, 2002-2006
This paper provides a descriptive and multivariate analysis of poverty dynamics in Vietnam using panel data from the Vietnam household living standards surveys of 2002, 2004, and 2006. Transition matrices and contour plots confirm that while large numbers of households moved out of poverty between these years, many did not move far the poverty line and that around a tenth of rural households appear to be trapped in chronic poverty. Different cate…
Ethnic Minority Poverty in Vietnam
Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the targets for poverty reduction set out in the Socio-Economic Development Plan, as well as the millennium development goals. The authors first review a series of monetary and non-monetary indicators which show the living standards of the ethnic minor…
Ethnic minority development in Vietnam
This study examines the disparities in living standards between and among the different ethnic groups in Vietnam. Using data from the Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and 1999 Census, we show that 'majority' Kinh and Hoa households have substantially higher living standards than 'minority' households from Vietnam's 52 other ethnic groups. While the Kinh, Hoa, Khmer and Northern Highland Minorities benefited from economic growth in the 1990s, the …
Aid distribution and the MDGs
The New Poverty Agenda: A Disputed Consensus
Spatial patterns of poverty in Vietnam and their implications for policy
Do Monetary and Nonmonetary Indicators Tell the Same Story About Chronic Poverty? A Study of Vietnam in the 1990s
The Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Vietnam and the Potential for Targeting
Minot and Baulch combine household survey and census concentrated in 10 provinces in the Northern Uplands, 2 data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam provinces in the Central Highlands, and 2 provinces in and evaluate the accuracy of geographically targeted the Central Coast. antipoverty programs. First, they estimate per capita
Being Poor and Becoming Poor: Poverty Status and Poverty Transitions in Rural Pakistan
This paper contrasts the results of conventional poverty status regressions with an alternative approach, the analysis of poverty transitions, using a five-year longitudinal household survey from rural Pakistan. The results show that while the incidence of income poverty in the sample villages was high, turnover among the poor was rapid. Almost 60 percent of households experienced poverty during the five years of the panel but only 35 percent sta…
Simulating the impact of policy upon chronic and transitory poverty in rural Pakistan
Anti‐poverty programmes often seek to improve their impact by targeting households for assistance according to welfare measures in a single time period. However, a growing literature shows the importance to poor households of fluctuations in their welfare from month to month and year to year. This study uses a five‐year panel of 686 households from rural Pakistan to investigate the magnitude of chronic or transitory poverty making an explicit adj…
Economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries
This study provides an introduction to this special issue of The Journal of Development Studies on economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries. In addition to providing a conceptual framework, it outlines how the contributions fit into the extant literature. A series of regularities emerge across these studies. The poor consist of those who are always poor — poor at all dates — and those who move in and out of poverty, with the…
Testing for food market integration revisited
This article considers the statistical performance of four commonly used econometric tests for market integration: the Law of One Price, the Ravallion Model, cointegration and Granger causality. A spatial price equilibrium (SPE) model, that is subject to both production shocks and general price inflation, and mimics many of the key characteristics of integrated food markets, is constructed. The model is used to generate food price time series of …
Neglected Trade-offs in Poverty Measurement
Summaries Discussions of the conventional income/consumption and participatory approaches to poverty measurement have focused on the trade?off between ‘objective’ and subjective measures of poverty. The trade?offs between the identification and aggregation of the poor and between static and dynamic measurement have been neglected. Although, the income/consumption approach may sometimes misidentify the poor, its well understood aggregation propert…
Entitlements and the Wollo Famine of 1982-1985
The traglic recent events in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa have again foccussed attention on the different anaytical approaches to the problems iof famine. Perhaps the most important analytical contribution to this field has been Sen's "entitlements approach." One of the case studies Sen used to articulate this approach was of the 1972-1973 famine in Wollo Province, Ethiopia. This article provides a provisional assessment of the famine proce…
Do Monetary and Nonmonetary Indicators Tell the Same Story About Chronic Poverty? A Study of Vietnam in the 1990s
Being Poor and Becoming Poor: Poverty Status and Poverty Transitions in Rural Pakistan
This paper contrasts the results of conventional poverty status regressions with an alternative approach, the analysis of poverty transitions, using a five-year longitudinal household survey from rural Pakistan. The results show that while the incidence of income poverty in the sample villages was high, turnover among the poor was rapid. Almost 60 percent of households experienced poverty during the five years of the panel but only 35 percent sta…
Neglected Trade-offs in Poverty Measurement
Summaries Discussions of the conventional income/consumption and participatory approaches to poverty measurement have focused on the trade?off between ‘objective’ and subjective measures of poverty. The trade?offs between the identification and aggregation of the poor and between static and dynamic measurement have been neglected. Although, the income/consumption approach may sometimes misidentify the poor, its well understood aggregation propert…
Spatial patterns of poverty in Vietnam and their implications for policy
Aid distribution and the MDGs
Entitlements and the Wollo Famine of 1982-1985
The traglic recent events in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa have again foccussed attention on the different anaytical approaches to the problems iof famine. Perhaps the most important analytical contribution to this field has been Sen's "entitlements approach." One of the case studies Sen used to articulate this approach was of the 1972-1973 famine in Wollo Province, Ethiopia. This article provides a provisional assessment of the famine proce…
The changing distribution of land in rural Vietnam, 2004–2014
The New Poverty Agenda: A Disputed Consensus
Entitlements and the Wollo Famine of 1982-1985
The traglic recent events in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa have again foccussed attention on the different anaytical approaches to the problems iof famine. Perhaps the most important analytical contribution to this field has been Sen's "entitlements approach." One of the case studies Sen used to articulate this approach was of the 1972-1973 famine in Wollo Province, Ethiopia. This article provides a provisional assessment of the famine proce…
Neglected Trade-offs in Poverty Measurement
Summaries Discussions of the conventional income/consumption and participatory approaches to poverty measurement have focused on the trade?off between ‘objective’ and subjective measures of poverty. The trade?offs between the identification and aggregation of the poor and between static and dynamic measurement have been neglected. Although, the income/consumption approach may sometimes misidentify the poor, its well understood aggregation propert…
Testing for food market integration revisited
This article considers the statistical performance of four commonly used econometric tests for market integration: the Law of One Price, the Ravallion Model, cointegration and Granger causality. A spatial price equilibrium (SPE) model, that is subject to both production shocks and general price inflation, and mimics many of the key characteristics of integrated food markets, is constructed. The model is used to generate food price time series of …
Simulating the impact of policy upon chronic and transitory poverty in rural Pakistan
Anti‐poverty programmes often seek to improve their impact by targeting households for assistance according to welfare measures in a single time period. However, a growing literature shows the importance to poor households of fluctuations in their welfare from month to month and year to year. This study uses a five‐year panel of 686 households from rural Pakistan to investigate the magnitude of chronic or transitory poverty making an explicit adj…
Economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries
This study provides an introduction to this special issue of The Journal of Development Studies on economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries. In addition to providing a conceptual framework, it outlines how the contributions fit into the extant literature. A series of regularities emerge across these studies. The poor consist of those who are always poor — poor at all dates — and those who move in and out of poverty, with the…
The Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Vietnam and the Potential for Targeting
Minot and Baulch combine household survey and census concentrated in 10 provinces in the Northern Uplands, 2 data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam provinces in the Central Highlands, and 2 provinces in and evaluate the accuracy of geographically targeted the Central Coast. antipoverty programs. First, they estimate per capita
Being Poor and Becoming Poor: Poverty Status and Poverty Transitions in Rural Pakistan
This paper contrasts the results of conventional poverty status regressions with an alternative approach, the analysis of poverty transitions, using a five-year longitudinal household survey from rural Pakistan. The results show that while the incidence of income poverty in the sample villages was high, turnover among the poor was rapid. Almost 60 percent of households experienced poverty during the five years of the panel but only 35 percent sta…
Do Monetary and Nonmonetary Indicators Tell the Same Story About Chronic Poverty? A Study of Vietnam in the 1990s
Spatial patterns of poverty in Vietnam and their implications for policy
Aid distribution and the MDGs
The New Poverty Agenda: A Disputed Consensus
Ethnic minority development in Vietnam
This study examines the disparities in living standards between and among the different ethnic groups in Vietnam. Using data from the Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and 1999 Census, we show that 'majority' Kinh and Hoa households have substantially higher living standards than 'minority' households from Vietnam's 52 other ethnic groups. While the Kinh, Hoa, Khmer and Northern Highland Minorities benefited from economic growth in the 1990s, the …
Ethnic Minority Poverty in Vietnam
Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the targets for poverty reduction set out in the Socio-Economic Development Plan, as well as the millennium development goals. The authors first review a series of monetary and non-monetary indicators which show the living standards of the ethnic minor…
Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam, 2002-2006
This paper provides a descriptive and multivariate analysis of poverty dynamics in Vietnam using panel data from the Vietnam household living standards surveys of 2002, 2004, and 2006. Transition matrices and contour plots confirm that while large numbers of households moved out of poverty between these years, many did not move far the poverty line and that around a tenth of rural households appear to be trapped in chronic poverty. Different cate…
Parallel Realities: Exploring Poverty Dynamics Using Mixed Methods in Rural Bangladesh
This paper explores the implications of using two methodological approaches to study poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh. Using data from a unique longitudinal study, we show how different methods lead to very different assessments of socio-economic mobility. We suggest five ways of reconciling these differences: considering assets in addition to expenditures, proximity to the poverty line, other aspects of well-being, household division, and qu…
Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa
Contents: Foreword David Hulme Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Africa and Asia Bob Baulch 1. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996-97 to 2006-07 Agnes Quisumbing 2. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004 Stefan Dercon and Catherine Porter 3. The Determinants and Consequences of Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Nepal, 1995-96 to 2003-04 Saurav Dev Bhatta and…
Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa
This edited book analyses what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. The distinguishing feature of these studies, which were commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, is they span longer periods or have more survey waves than most developing country panels. This allows a detailed account of the maintainers of chronic poverty and drive…
Assets and Poverty Traps in Rural Bangladesh
Using longitudinal survey from rural Bangladesh, this article examines the determinants of land and asset accumulation over time and explores why some households may be trapped in asset poverty. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to discern the shape of the asset accumulation path, and whether unique or multiple equilibria exist. We find evidence for concavity of the dynamic asset frontier but no evidence for multiple equilibria. It i…
The Poverty Focus of Swedish Bilateral Aid: A Comparative Analysis
Malawi’s slowly changing employment landscape and its implications for youth
We examine Malawi’s employment landscape between 2004/05 and 2016/17, focusing on sectoral change and youth entering the workforce. Little evidence of a structural transformation in cross sectoral patterns of employment is found. The share of employment in agriculture rose slightly over the period, though the share of full time equivalent jobs declined in the sector. The analysis shows that younger youth are not participating in the limited emplo…
A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi
This paper proposes a new approach to monitoring farmer prices in low-income developing countries. This crowdsourcing approach involves broadcasting radio jingles inviting farmers to report the prices and locations at which they sold their crops to a toll-free call centre, with weekly prizes to incentivize reporting. An application to Malawi illustrates the feasibility of this approach in a setting where internet connectivity is limited but mobil…
The changing distribution of land in rural Vietnam, 2004–2014
Economics (19 works) · Economic growth (17 works) · Poverty (16 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (14 works) · Development economics (13 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (7 works)