Understanding Changes in Poverty

Bibliographic Data

ID19903874
AuthorsGabriela Inchauste (0000-0002-3582-5892), João Pedro Azevedo (0000-0002-3844-215X), B Essama-Nssah, B Essama‐Nssah, Sergio Olivieri, Trang Van Nguyen (0000-0002-8579-6102), Jaime Saavedra-Chanduví, Hernan Winkler (0000-0002-2980-5676)
Year2014
Pages171
Publication date2014-08-21
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueUnderstanding changes in poverty (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe World Bank (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1596/978-1-4648-0299-7
OpenAlexW1896664154
Open LibraryOL31025777M
ISBN9781464802997
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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, occupational, and educational structure of the workforce, as well as changes in the returns to individual and household characteristics. Understanding Changes in Poverty implements these approaches and finds that labor income growth that is, growth in income per worker rather than an increase in the number of employed workers was the largest contributor to moderate poverty reduction in 21 countries experiencing substantial reductions in poverty over the past decade. Changes in demographics, public transfers, and remittances helped, but made relatively smaller contributions to poverty reduction. Further decompositions in three countries find that labor income grew mainly because of higher returns to human capital endowments, signaling increases in productivity, higher relative price of labor, or both. Understanding Changes in Poverty will be of particular relevance to development practitioners interested in better understanding distributional changes over time. The methods and tools presented in this book can also be applied to better understand changes in inequality or any other distributional change

Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Poverty · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Income distribution

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