Documents et rapports
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Predicting Income Distributions from Almost Nothing (anglais)
This paper develops a method to predict comparable income and consumption distributions for all countries in the world from a simple regression with a handful of country-level variables. To fit the model...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11034 Date du document: 13 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Daniel Gerszon Mahler,Marta Schoch,Christoph Lakner,Minh Nguyen Nguyet Do
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Protecting Poor and Vulnerable Sri Lankans During an Economic Crisis : A Tough Balancing Act for Fiscal Policy (anglais)
This note examines how recent fiscal reforms have affected household incomes in Sri Lanka. It assesses their impact on poverty and inequality separately from other welfare-losses-inducing shocks experienced...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 193603 Date du document: 18 septembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Marta Schoch,Tiloka Sunayani De Silva,Ian William Houts,Nandini Krishnan
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Making Data Count : Estimating a Poverty Trend for Nigeria between 2009 and 2019 (anglais)
Monitoring poverty reduction requires frequent microdata on household welfare that can be compared over time. Such data are unavailable in many countries, given limited statistical capacity, shocks that...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 192811 Date du document: 1 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jonathan William Lain,Marta Schoch,Tara Vishwanath