Documents et rapports
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Setting Poverty Lines for Consumption-Based Welfare Measures: A Research Agenda (anglais)
This paper presents a unified analytical framework to organize and review the literature on consumption-based poverty measurement, with a focus on establishing absolute poverty lines. Based on this framework...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10813 Date du document: 24 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amendola,Nicola,Mancini,Giulia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Price Adjustments and Poverty Measurement (anglais)
Measuring poverty entails making interpersonal welfare comparisons, that should account for differences in prices faced by households, both over time and across space. This paper investigates the impact...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPs10426 Date du document: 27 avril 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amendola,Nicola,Mancini,Giulia,Redaelli,Silvia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Outlier Detection for Welfare Analysis (anglais)
Extreme values are common in survey data and represent a recurring threat to the reliability of both poverty and inequality estimates. The adoption of a consistent criterion for outlier detection is useful...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10231 Date du document: 15 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Belotti,Federico,Mancini,Giulia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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On the Construction of a Consumption Aggregate for Inequality and Poverty Analysis (anglais)
It has been 20 years since Angus Deaton and Salman Zaidi's Guidelines for Constructing consumption aggregates for welfare Analysis first appeared. The paper was conceived as a how-to guide for practitioners...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 169327 Date du document: 28 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mancini,Giulia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Poverty Measurement Methodology in the Maldives : Technical Report (anglais)
The Maldives national bureau of statistics (NBS) undertook a household income and expenditure survey (HIES) in 2016. The latest round of HIES in the Maldives (with other rounds conducted in 2003 and 2009-10)...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 137714 Date du document: 1 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wieser,Christina,Vecchi,Giovanni,Mancini,Giulia
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Durable goods and poverty measurement (anglais)
The paper focuses on durable goods and their role in the measurement of living standards. The paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of the methods available to estimate the value of the services...
Numéro du rapport: WPS7105 Date du document: 1 novembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amendola,Nicola,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Durable goods and poverty measurement (anglais)
The paper focuses on durable goods and their role in the measurement of living standards. The paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of the methods available to estimate the value of the services...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125427 Date du document: 1 novembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amendola,Nicola,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Africa at a turning point? Growth, aid, and external shocks (anglais)
This book is a collection of essays that seeks to answer three interrelated sets of questions about Africa's recent growth recovery. The first set of essays addresses questions about the drivers and durability...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 43976 Date du document: 14 avril 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Go,Delfin Sia,Page,John,Arbache,Jorge Saba,Korman,Vijdan,Ye,Xiao,Chuhan-Pole,Punam,Fitzpatrick,Brendan,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Robinson,Sherman,Thierfelder,Karen E.,Lofgren,Hans Lennart,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Ratha,Dilip Kumar,Mohapatra,Sanket,Plaza,Sonia,Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique,Devlin,Julia C.,Lewin,Michael,Ranaweera,Thilakaratna,Budina,Nina Todorova,Van Wijnbergen,Sweder,Andriamihaja,Noro Aina,Vecchi,Giovanni,Essama-Nssah, B.,Kearney,Marna
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Growth, inequality, and poverty in Madagascar, 2001-2005 (anglais)
The paper examines changes in poverty and inequality in Madagascar between the years 2001 and 2005. During this period Madagascar's economic progress has been notable. Yet the record for poverty and living...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51700 Date du document: 1 avril 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amendola,Nicola,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Italian children at work, 1881-1961 (anglais)
This paper quantifies the extent and the main characteristics of child work in Italy during the years 1881-1961. From population censuses, author created a new database of the economically active population...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 43894 Date du document: 1 octobre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Toniolo, G.,Vecchi,Giovanni
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An evaluation of the welfare impact of higher energy prices in Madagascar (anglais)
In this paper the authors estimate the effect of a rise in petroleum prices on living standards in Madagascar combining information on expenditure patterns from the Enquete Aupres des Menages 2005 with...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 41892 Date du document: 28 juin 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Andriamihaja,Noro Aina,Vecchi,Giovanni