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Explaining Poverty Evolution
Channing Arndt,M. Azhar Hussain,E. Samuel Jones,Virgulino Nhate,Finn Tarp,James Thurlow +5 more
- 01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed recently collected data on household consumption in Mozambique to examine the evolution of consumption poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09.
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Abstract: Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile. This paper employs recently collected data on household consumption in Mozambique to examine the evolution of consumption poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was characterized by major movements in international commodity prices. Mozambique provides an illuminating case study of the implications of these world commodity price changes for living standards of poor people. Second, a novel ‘backcasting’ approach using a computable general equilibrium model of Mozambique, linked to a poverty module …
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Martin Ravallion
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TL;DR: This article examined alternative methods for constructing poverty profiles, focusing on their internal consistency and appropriateness for guiding policy, and found that some methods appear to be preferable to others when the aim is to inform policies for fighting absolute consumption poverty.
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The African Growth Miracle
TL;DR: Measures of real consumption based upon the ownership of durable goods, the quality of housing, the health and mortality of children, the education of youth and the allocation of female time in the household indicate that sub-Saharan living standards have, for the past two decades, been growing about 3.4 to 3.7 percent per annum, i.e. three and a half to four times the rate indicated in international data sets as mentioned in this paper.
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