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Trade policies can promote aggregate efficiency, but the ensuing structural adjustments generally create both winners and losers. From an incomes perspective, trade liberalization can raise GDP per capita, but rates of emergence from poverty depend upon individual household characteristics of...
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– The Asian Experience
This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro-poor growth, this study examines to what extent the poor benefit from economic growth. First, various approaches to defining and measuring pro-poor growth are scrutinized using a variety...
Journal Article
– What Is the Loss in Precision?
Part of Journal Special Issue
Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
Journal Article
– A Methodological Innovation in a Vietnamese Perspective
Part of Journal Special Issue
Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
Many developing and transition countries have considerable regional variation in average household income, poverty, and in health and educational status. National human development indicators can therefore mislead policy-makers when large regional disparities exist. This project will investigate the...
Book Chapter
– What Is the Loss in Precision?
From the book:
Spatial Disparities in Human Development
Book Chapter
– A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective
From the book:
Spatial Disparities in Human Development
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– What is the Loss in Precision?
Spatially disaggregated maps of the incidence of poverty can be constructed by combining household survey data and census data. In some countries (notably China and India), national statistics agencies are reluctant, for reasons of confidentiality, to release household-level census data, but they...
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– A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective
In this paper we calibrate two static computable general equilibrium (CGE) models with respectively 16 and 5,999 representative households. Aggregated and disaggregated household categories are consistently embedded in a 2000 social accounting matrix for Vietnam, mapping on a one-to-one basis to...
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