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Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty

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dc.creator Klasen, Stephan
dc.creator Günther, Isabel
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:07:12Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:07:12Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19866
dc.identifier ppn:560719981
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6533
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19866
dc.description An increasing interest in poverty dynamics has lately also led to an extensive literature on the analysis of chronic poverty. Based on Amartya Sen?s groundbreaking work on capabilities and functionings static poverty measures have long used non-income indicators. In contrast, measures of poverty dynamics - including chronic poverty – have in general conceptualised poverty only in an income dimension. Hence, this paper first critically discusses the conceptual and empirical potentials and limitations of analysing chronic poverty from a nonincome perspective. Second, it proposes methods to empirically measure chronic nonincome poverty, with an exploratory application to panel data from Vietnam from 1992 and 1997, which demonstrates that a range of useful insights can be generated from such an analysis. In particular, we find that the correlation between chronic income and non-income poverty is rather low which is mostly due to a low correlation between income and nonincome poverty in each period, while both move relatively closely over time. We also find a surprising amount of heterogeneity in static and dynamic non-income poverty within households.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 10
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.title Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty
dc.type doc-type:conferenceObject


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