Arjan Verschoor
University of East Anglia
78 Papers
311 Citations
Arjan Verschoor is an academic researcher from University of East Anglia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 66 publications. Previous affiliations of Arjan Verschoor include University of Sheffield.
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Papers
Aid, Poverty Reduction and the ‘New Conditionality’*
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of aid on poverty, rather than on economic growth, is examined, and a "pro-poor (public) expenditure index" is devised to measure the leverage of aid donors on public expenditure.
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Choice under Uncertainty: Evidence from Ethiopia, India and Uganda
TL;DR: The authors used experimental evidence collected from risky choice experiments using poor subjects in Ethiopia, India and Uganda to estimate that just over 50% of the sample behaves in accordance with expected utility theory and the rest subjectively weight probability according to prospect theory.
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Not by growth alone : The role of the distribution of income in regional diversity in poverty reduction
Adriaan Kalwij,Arjan Verschoor +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the role of the distribution of income in determining the responsiveness of poverty to income growth and changes in income inequality using panel data of 58 developing countries for the period 1980-1998.
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Risk Attitudes and the ‘Vicious Circle of Poverty’
Paul Mosley,Arjan Verschoor +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that there is generally little relationship between risk aversion and an income measure of poverty, but a strong relationship between the latter and asset levels and returns, concluding that the poor are trapped into poverty as a result of their risk aversion, precluding the level of investment needed to lift them out of poverty.
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Aid, pro-poor government spending and welfare
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a residual generated regressor to obtain a coefficient on the aid variable that includes the indirect effects through public expenditure allocation induced by aid, and found evidence that aid is associated with improved values of the welfare indicators because aid finances pro-poor spending.