Measurement of Trends in Wellbeing, Poverty, and Inequality with Case Studies from Bolivia and Colombia.

• Superior document: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series ; v.32
• Author: Grosse, Melanie.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2011.; Ã2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction and Overview -- 1 Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Approach and Data -- 1.3 Empirical Results -- 1.3.1 Estimation Properties -- 1.3.2 Poverty and Inequality Trends -- 1.3.3 Pro-Poor Growth -- 1.4 Sensitivity Analyses -- 1.4.1 Disaggregated Data on GDP -- 1.4.2 Regional Differentials in Sectoral Participation -- 1.4.3 Mobility Assumption -- 1.5 The Asset Index Approach -- 1.6 Discussion -- 2 Estimating the Stability of Poverty Analysis: Out-of-Sample Predictions in Dynamic Poverty Mapping -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Approach and Data -- 2.3 Results of Out-of-Sample Predictions -- 2.3.1 Regression -- 2.3.2 Method -- 2.3.3 Income -- 2.3.4 Evolution of Poverty and Inequality -- 2.4 Discussion and Outlook -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Measuring Pro-Poor Growth in Non-Income Dimensions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Concept of Pro-Poor Growth -- 3.2.1 Definition of Pro-Poor Growth -- 3.2.2 Multidimensionality of Pro-Poor Growth -- 3.3 Methodology -- 3.3.1 The Growth Incidence Curve -- 3.3.2 The Non-Income Growth Incidence Curve -- 3.3.3 Specification of the Non-Income Indicators -- 3.3.4 Limitations of the Indicators -- 3.4 Empirical Analysis -- 3.4.1 Inequality -- 3.4.2 Pro-Poor Growth -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Pro-Poor Growth in Multidimensional Poverty Indicators: An Application to Colombia -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Concept and Measurement Issues -- 4.2.1 Foundations of Multidimensional Poverty Analysis -- 4.2.2 Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics: Pro-Poor Growth -- 4.3 Application to Colombia -- 4.3.1 Macroeconomic Trends and Public Policies -- 4.3.2 Data -- 4.3.3 Multidimensional Poverty Indicators.

4.3.4 Correlation with Income and Consumption -- 4.3.5 Limitations of the Indicators -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Trends and Inequality in Multidimensional Indicators -- 4.4.2 Pro-Poor Growth Analysis -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C.