Documentos e informes
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Poverty Dynamics in Bhutan, 2017–2022 : Evidence from Synthetic Panels (Inglés)
This paper examines the dynamics of poverty in Bhutan between 2017 and 2022, utilizing cross-sectional data from the Bhutan Living Standards Surveys. The paper constructs synthetic panels and estimates...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS11031 Fecha del documento: 10 de enero de 2025 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amendola,Nicola,Belotti,Federico,Alvin Etang Ndip,Mancini,Giulia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Setting Poverty Lines for Consumption-Based Welfare Measures: A Research Agenda (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10813 Fecha del documento: 24 de junio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amendola,Nicola,Mancini,Giulia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Price Adjustments and Poverty Measurement (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPs10426 Fecha del documento: 27 de abril de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amendola,Nicola,Mancini,Giulia,Redaelli,Silvia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Outlier Detection for Welfare Analysis (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10231 Fecha del documento: 15 de noviembre de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Belotti,Federico,Mancini,Giulia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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On the Construction of a Consumption Aggregate for Inequality and Poverty Analysis (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 169327 Fecha del documento: 28 de febrero de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mancini,Giulia,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Poverty Measurement Methodology in the Maldives : Technical Report (Inglés)
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)...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 137714 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wieser,Christina,Vecchi,Giovanni,Mancini,Giulia
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Durable goods and poverty measurement (Inglés)
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...
Número del informe: WPS7105 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amendola,Nicola,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Durable goods and poverty measurement (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 125427 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amendola,Nicola,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Africa at a turning point? Growth, aid, and external shocks (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 43976 Fecha del documento: 14 de abril de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 51700 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Amendola,Nicola,Vecchi,Giovanni
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Italian children at work, 1881-1961 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 43894 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Toniolo, G.,Vecchi,Giovanni
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An evaluation of the welfare impact of higher energy prices in Madagascar (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 41892 Fecha del documento: 28 de junio de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Andriamihaja,Noro Aina,Vecchi,Giovanni