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Understanding Changes in Poverty

By: Gabriela Inchauste,João Pedro Azevedo,B. Essama-Nssah,Sergio Olivieri,Trang Van Nguyen,Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi,Hernan Winkler

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Understanding Changes in Poverty

By: Gabriela Inchauste,João Pedro Azevedo,B. Essama-Nssah,Sergio Olivieri,Trang Van Nguyen,Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi,Hernan Winkler

The 2015 Millennium Development Goal to cut in half the share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty was met with time to spare. By 2013, the percentage of developing-country populations living in extreme poverty decreased from 43 percent in 1990 to 21 percent by 2010. Clearly, there is still a long way to go, with 1.2 billion people without enough to eat. What can we learn from the recent success? This volume presents recent methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. What was the main contributor to poverty reduction? Using a simple accounting approach, we find that labor income growth was the largest contributor to moderate poverty reduction for a group of 21 countries with substantial reductions in poverty over the past decade. Moreover, in most cases, it was the growth in income per worker that contributed the most to poverty reduction, rather than an increase in employment. Changes in demographics, public transfers and remittances helped, but made relatively smaller contributions to poverty reduction. Public transfers were important in reducing extreme poverty, pointing to the crucial role of social protection systems. How was labor income growth able to reduce poverty? After a review of the literature, a structural decomposition method is presented and implemented in three countries. The results show that that labor income grew mainly because of higher returns to human capital endowments. This could signal increases in productivity, a higher relative price of labor, or both. In Bangladesh and Peru, this was driven by higher returns to workers with low levels of education, which may have partly been driven by higher food prices. In contrast, in Thailand, poverty fell partly due to increasing returns to education.

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1464803005

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9781464803000

Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Ricardo Paes de Barros,Francisco H. G. Ferreira,Jose R Molinas Vega,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi

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Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Ricardo Paes de Barros,Francisco H. G. Ferreira,Jose R Molinas Vega,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi

Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person s life chances. Success in life should depend on people s choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America over a decade. An innovative Human Opportunity Index and other parametric and non-parametric techniques are presented for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge inequality of opportunities in access to basic services for children, learning achievement for youth, and income and consumption for adults.

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0821377469

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9780821377468

Do African Children Have an Equal Chance?

A Human Opportunity Report for Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Andrew Dabalen,Ambar Narayan,Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi,Alejandro Hoyos Suarez

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Do African Children Have an Equal Chance?

A Human Opportunity Report for Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Andrew Dabalen,Ambar Narayan,Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi,Alejandro Hoyos Suarez

Early access to education, health services, safe water, and nutritious food improve the chances of a fruitful life. This book highlights the significant progress Sub-Saharan African countries have made in the past decades and the challenges that remain in ending extreme poverty and laying the foundations for shared prosperity.

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146480334X

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9781464803345

Do Our Children Have a Chance?

A Human Opportunity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean

By: José R. Molinas Vega,Ricardo Paes de Barros,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi,Marcelo Giugale,Louise J. Cord,Carola Pessino,Amer Hasan

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Do Our Children Have a Chance?

A Human Opportunity Report for Latin America and the Caribbean

By: José R. Molinas Vega,Ricardo Paes de Barros,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi,Marcelo Giugale,Louise J. Cord,Carola Pessino,Amer Hasan

This volume reports on the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean by tracking equity in access to key services using newly-available data.

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0821389025

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Understanding Changes in Poverty

Understanding Changes in Poverty

Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Do African Children Have an Equal Chance?

Do African Children Have an Equal Chance?

Do Our Children Have a Chance?

Do Our Children Have a Chance?

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