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In my current research on the lived experience of ageing in extreme poverty, I am trying to illustrate something connecting the discursive social process of 'Othering'. But I am struggling to find a term that can best define the reverse process of 'Othering'. What it could be in one/two words? Your contribution is much appreciated.
Any research available on 1st, 2nd & 3rd Wave of COVID-19, and different economic responses by Top 3 Suffering Countries (USA, Brazil & India) ?
I am looking for Economic Responses in Each Wave by the top COVID-19 suffering countries,
How it lead them to prepare for the another wave ( In Economic terms)
Esteemed researchers,
I will need more insights and justifications into using "per capita consumption expenditure" as a measure of poverty.
Please refer me to applicable papers.
Thanks as always.
Ngozi
this question is aimed to identify policy options that might be useful for combating the global pandemic.
How much time do you will take India to come to a normal routine after COVID-19? As COVID-19 induced shutdown of the country is negatively affecting all businesses. Worst hit population in low income and below poverty households? How long do you think they will be able to manage in prevalent conditions?
I am using the consumption expenditure unit level household data set for India which is collected by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) for the three time-periods 1993-94, 2004-05 and 2011-12. All data set is deflated on the 2011-12 level and the poverty line is also the same for all time period. Population data set taken from Census of India (Planning Commission, Government of India) which is published the data set on every ten years. Population data set will be extrapolation as per the requirement of our study. I want to estimate growth effect, inequality effect and population shift effect. But unfortunately, I have found some difficulties in the implementing data set.
I could not understand that which commands and Statistical Packages will be used for estimating these all thing specially for growth effect, inequality effect and Population shift effect and which variable is needed for population shift effect?
Pakistani universities are offering two pay scales these days. ?Basic Pay scale and tenure track system. Which one is better and what are pros and cons?
I thought economically weak communities struggles for daily bread and butter, there is very few chances to grow mentally; consequently, there is no significance of human rights, policies and concern for nation to them.
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I am looking for data on distribution of wealth/net worth within countries around the world. Something like a frequency distribution of net worth within a population, that would allow me to compare these distributions across countries. Is anyone aware of such data?
I want to analysed the diversified livelihood of the rural people in the mountainous areas. can i used the capitals approach for this study.
For the theoretical framework of my research I need to incorporate the most prominent poverty theories. My research is on multidimensional poverty in rural areas of Bihar. I have already included capability theory (A. Sen) and Sub-culture of poverty (Oscar Lewis). Also, if there are any specific theories for rural poverty in economic literature, please share.
Dear Researchers, It is urgent for me to know the system of measuring poverty through FGT index in SPSS or MS-Excel. If you provide me the idea, I would be very benefited.
Thank you
While creating a composite index of deprivation (area-based) integrating social determinants of health, the question about age and sex standardisation came up. In an equity perspective, some think that it should not be standardised in order to measure the direct effects of population characteristics (age and sex) on income, employment rate, etc. Others insist that standardisation is needed when resource allocation (funding and human resources) is based on the deprivation index in order to help regions with higher needs.
What arguments (with reference if possible) would you use for either option?
The empirical evidence in most developing countries suggests that despite a success story in income achievement and breakthrough in democratic governance, yet the rate of poverty and inequality are still alarming in these countries. It is not very clear whether the growth in income and modern democracy are really leading to improved standard of living by closing the numerous gaps between the rich and the poor. Up till now, we still have a phenomenon of digital divides in many less developed countries. A larger percentage of their population are still in abject poverty with a share of income that could not afford quality education, modern health facilities, and all sorts of available digital technological services available in the world of today. Product availability is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. We need to consider product affordability. The per capita income figure can not really be taken as a good measure of economic development because of serious problem of outliers. The attention now should not be on how to boost aggregate income alone but how to distribute the income in such a way that the rate of poverty and inequality can be reduced to an appreciable level to achieve economic development in these countries
I'm trying to find a correct model for asymmetric effects of increases and decrease of housing prices on divorce rates (I currently have a unify variable - the percent change in housing prices) ?
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I need to select one variable to measure income inequality for all countries. I found data for Gini index. However, data is not available for all the years, from 1980 to 2015 and there are many missing values. Anyone aware of any other index to measure the same with data availability for the period from 1980 to 2015.
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There are various method of measuring poverty like Poverty Gap, Poverty headcount ratio, Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty line etc. For the aim of valid research outcomes which procedure will be the best?
Are there any recent lists indicating to what digit level of ISIC classification data is available for individual African countries? I am studying the feasibility of extracting statistics on specifically the cultural sector, which often requires 4 digit-levels, and I want to get a quick overview which African countries already have this level of dis-aggregation in their economic activity data. Ditto for employment ISCO data, consumption COICOP data and so on.
I am trying to locate surveys/data sets that provide information about ageing and health in a number of countries in the Asian region - including, for example, the 2014 Myanmar Ageing Study, 2011 Viet Nam National Aging Study and SAGE India Waves 0-2; however, I cannot locate studies in Lao PDR, Malaysia, Nepal, and the Philippines. Any connections to colleagues/surveys and advice would be welcome.
I want to get the inequality data for developing countries for atleast 30 yrs. and want to use EHII UTIP inequality data. But the problem is this data is latest available from 1968-2008 and i want to use it till 2015. Searching certain papers i find out that some people have expanded this data using world bank data and method "Out of sample" forecasting.could anyone guide me how to expand the available data and details about using this forecasting method.
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I need information on life style of people on basis of their income brackets.
please help me some one.
Developing countries need SE to innovate, to change the society, but actions like that have some cost. To ensure the enterprise will exist in the future, social entrepreneurs must have financial return. Because new thing doesn´t exist in those countries, due to the government and market failure, SE can sell to the poor with higher cost. For this, it is argued that the logic of bottom of pyramid (BOP) had failed, and SE may fall in the same trap. Also by searching for financial sustainability social entrepreneurs enter in the so called "poverty penalty", a good review of the social dimension of the problems is needed. Then, I can ask:
Are social entrepreneurs getting richer by innovation and the desire to change? Can we talk about social entrepreneurship failure yet?
THANKS
I am working on data acquisition electronic system to measure the following parameters: CO, NO2, O3, Temperature, Humidity, and Pressure with their respective geo-location [GPS Coordinates].
I am intended to find a correlation between the data I have with poverty or living level of population in that area.
1. What kind of data we can get to represent poverty? Population Income, Health records, Housing prices ...etc.
2. What data mining technique can we apply to both pollution/poverty data in order convert it into meaningful information. [From programming/Computer Science perspective].
Thank you so much for your suggestions, ideas, and contributions.
Looking forward for your interactions.
Warm regards,
Badr Eddine
How good is multidimensional poverty tool developed by the international fund for agricultural development compared to the other tools?
I am writing about the Millennium Development Goals in the Caribbean. Are there articles on this matter. I am interested Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, St. Maarten, Suriname, Barbados, Trinidad.
What is the role of economic deprivation?
Seeking a brief assessment of material hardship for inclusion in a survey. Considering following Mayer & Jenck's (1989) inclusion of 1) SNAP/food stamp receipt, 2) not enough money for housing, 3) not enough money to pay bills, and 4) not enough money for healthcare. Wondering if anyone has guidance or suggestions based on recent research?
Hi everyone,
I'm aware that the Gini index is the most widely used measure of income inequality, but in my search for other alternative measures, I came across the 'Palma ratio' which is defined as "the ratio of national income shares of the top 10% of households to the bottom 40%. If the richest 10% in a country earn between them half of the national income, and the poorest 40% earn one-tenth of the national income, the Palma ratio is 0.5 divided by 0.1, which is 5". It reflects an observation of Chilean economist José Gabriel Palma about the stability of the “middle” 50% share of income across countries.
I'm still not clear about this measure, but will it reflect the disparity in the income distribution within an economy?
Opinions and contributions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Ngozi
What are Papers on The role of Zakha in poverty reduction?
I would like for someone who can answer this question or give me some resources to the: Root cause of high unemployment in Mauritania?
Hi all,
I'm using 3SLS regression model to estimate "Farm-Nonfarm-Poverty Linkages" for a decade among major Indian states. Being a beginner in modelling, i could estimate coefficients of different equations. Using stata-12, i've estimated the model through the syntax below.
- reg3 (Equation-1)(Equation-2)(Equation-3)(Equation-4), 3sls
It will be of great help if some guidance can be offered to estimate marginal effects of different equations in the system.
Thanx.
Where can I find information showing a comparison of average wage rates in Africa? I need to determine and compare labour costs in Sub-Saharan African countries.
I am doing research in rural villages in Cambodia and exploring issues of gender, migration, labor and poverty. If you can refer me to any good research, I would much appreciate it. I am particularly interested in push/pull factors for informal migration, notions of self-worth and self-esteem on decisions to migrate, and gender factors on perceptions of community issues, vulnerability, and agency.
There is so much fear of food insecurity among developing countries in spite of the fact that most of them are engaged in agriculture.
Dear all, i need per capita poverty line figures for India. Latest available are for year 2011-12. How should i estimate growth rate of prices and find the new per capita poverty figures?
Why do we keep thinking that a "poor place" is a "dangerous place" (like cinema and media discourses)? What can we do to surpass this kind of 'paradigm' that seems to exists in researches about urban violence for example?
Dual-generation approaches for breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty may be more effective than strategies that focus on parents or their children separately. Holistic programs provide essential opportunities and support to meet the education, economic, social, and health needs of parents and their children, simultaneously.
Is anyone aware of a participatory exercise carried out to derive a list of poverty, well-being or (human) development dimensions? Except for the well-known "Voices of the Poor" etc. It can be a national level or regional level.
In the case of a censored quantile regression, the choice of the quantile is important and the estimation results depends on this choice. According to your expertise, what are your recommendations about the choice of the quantile and the interpretation of the estimators.
The most recent World Bank report from 2015 is titled "Mind, Society and Behavior" . It is mainly inspired by endless experimental results from Western Universities and their departments of Psychology and Behavioral Economics. They are craving to donate their advanced knowledge on human behavior to the poor of the world.
And so they identified a surprising problem of the poor: they save too little cash.
Will more rational decision making help them to save the bucks for medicine and their childrens school? May they improve their "mental accounting" by the use of a special World-Bank-iron-box for cash savings?
The poor also borrow too much money. Can we help them to save money by printing a warning of high interest rates on their pay day envelope?
According to the report people have "two systems of thinking", an automatic and a deliberative system. Can we help them by enhancing the deliberative one? And to which one belong the experiments of Behavioral Economics? Hopefully not to the automatic. Sure?
Finally you have to decide yourself how biased this - nevertheless as inspiring as provocative report - is - if you're still in charge of your deliberative system because you're not yet brainwashed by US and UK universities
Say for example we are trying to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of a particular poverty alleviation programme where no comparison group is available. We are looking at a data that has to be collected at a single point in time without having any effective way to draw the data for comparison. In such a scenario where just one reading of the data is available, how best can we evaluate the effectiveness of such a programme without compromising the quality of such research.
I am increasingly finding the issue of food deserts very interesting. Particularly in context of urban planning and decision-making by grocery stores and the driving factors. Is anyone currently working on this, or is interested in working on something together in this area?
The problem associated with almost every construction project in India, is the delay in land acquisition, which will ultimately lead to an escalation in the project cost and duration.
The stiff public opposition could be due to the complexity and delays in getting the promised compensatory package and another problem is the compensation, in the form of liquid cash, which could be spend up quickly. Thereby one's property and livelihood, which could be the result of a lifetime of hardwork could end up being sacrificed at the cost of the project. This is of particular importance to India where there is a huge mass of population living below the poverty line.
The Singapore model is a unique housing model where the govt has spend up money in constructing apartment blocks, into which the affected public were relocated. These apartments are usually constructed in public land in the outskirts. These are later developed into satellite towns, which will increase the land value at these places. Thus the affected public are guaranteed shelter as well as accommodation which could be a more effective compensation
I have searched for some essays and found that there are solutions more than one way. I couldnt be sure that which way is the best and wanted to ask you.
I need to know the list of countries that were identified by the Jubilee 2000 campaign as requiring immediate debt cancellation for a study I am doing on World Bank-IMF poverty reduction strategies. I appreciate any help I can get on this. Thanks.
Hi all,
I wish to go-through the recent advances in poverty analysis. Could you suggest few of those?
Thank you.
How can i find Atkinson's Index for different quintiles? Would that provide additional information than the index of the overall data?
>> A. Mani et al., “Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function,” Science, 341(6149), 2013, pp. 976-980.
It seems that the causality in this study was upside down when it’s perceived that poverty results in poor IQ (intelligence quotient) rather than otherwise, i.e., low IQ may result in poverty in society based on the data collected in the article.
Head Count Ratio and related poverty measures require state-specific poverty lines, upon which poverty indices are obtained. But how these lines are obtained? Is there any way to obtain district-specific and for further strata.
How has 23 years (1990 – 2013) of war contributed to slum build up in Kabul City and its subsequent effect on the developing housing process and existing housing conditions?
The year 1978 saw a coup in Kabul that resulted in foreign and civil war within Afghanistan that’s still being continued till present day. The man made disasters have caused over three million Afghan civilians to migrate to 75 countries around the world and hundreds and thousands more to internally migrate. With many people being displaced and homeless, slums began to sporadically appear around various major cities.
Two schools of thought have shared their opinions on the best way to enhance welfare for the population of a given country. The Utilitarian argument primarily focuses on maximizing welfare through efficient allocation (primarily of income), while the Rawlsian argument looks beyond income and incorporates relative deprivation (or satisfaction in case of redistribution) based on the requirements of the poorest individuals (thus equality for all). Which of these in your opinion has the potential to effectively enhance welfare in a given nation and help achieve vital developmental goals?
Hi all,
I'm studying the poverty status of states in different NSS years. Can someone suggest some "SIMPLE" measures to identify the "cluster of states" in a scatter, so that i can identify the persistence of clusters in different periods. I really don't need a rigorous method but a "simple, yet good" method.
Thanx.
The topic of inequality and its social as well as economic implications is a very discussed topic (specially after Piketty´s book came out).
Most research I´ve come across with concentrates around the relationship between income inequality and growth. So I´m looking for some good papers on the relationship between wealth inequality and economic growth.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Recently I am interested in Life cycle analysis LCA,
I need the access to a database or to download it about social analysis. like poverty for example.....
There is a SHDP portal that is not free.
The commission on Poverty (CoP) in Hong Kong just set up the first official poverty line in Hong Kong as 50% of the median household income of different household sizes. The raw poverty line rate is estimated without any Government intervention like income protection, old age allowance. Another poverty rate is estimated after the intervention. However, there is a debate inside CoP that should we include and calculate the income transfer impacts of the Government social service like public housing, health care and education as Government's intervention on poverty alleviation. In Hong Kong health care and education provision are universal and public housing is selective.
A key issue that I would like to highlight is that child poverty is distinct from household poverty, although they are often related. With this in mind, eradicating extreme poverty ($1.25 a day) is only relevant to child poverty insofar as households invest in their children, but is not a direct indication of whether a child is poor or not. Indicators to measure child poverty in a multidimensional way can be derived from the Convention of the Rights of Child, in areas such as nutrition, healthcare, education, leisure, information, (no) exploitation, among others, and measured with the use of household surveys. This would allow us to capture the multiple dimension of poverty, and to do it in a way that is relevant for children, and not only for adults or households. Taking this into consideration is essential to tackle child poverty reaching all children.
Alkire et al. of OPHI developed MPI, which is a very useful method to assess the human progress in a population. I would like to compute it across the districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. However, I struck at few steps. If anybody has done it earlier can you share your stata code or Excel sheet? I am using Demographic and Health Survey unit Data.
Is Gini coefficient the only way to measure inequality? Are there some superior measures i.e. that can provide some more details?
It is widely accepted that economic boom in China has risen millions from poverty. Lithuania during 2002-2008 was the fastest European economically growing country, when GDP increased by 7-9 percent annually. However, the poverty threshold in the country stood at the same 20 percent, and there was no poverty reduction in Lithuania. How can the situation be evaluated in other countries? Can you have economic growth and poverty increase at the same time?
I would like to know about the statistical models and tools used for analysis high frequency panel data on poverty. Kindly also help with the proper references of such works, along with workable tools.
History shows that some countries that were poor have become increasingly rich and powerful while others remain stagnated in this state without arriving to escape.
The Pro-Poor Budgeting is expected to contribute to improvement of access of the poor to quality social services and infrastructure.
I want to know where the boundaries lie between these three terms.
I'm trying to find out if there is a correlation between the values that television media portray to the locus of control of indigent people. I think there is a pattern of values that these television shows portray in our country (Philippines) and I want to find out if these values affect the locus of control of the poor.
Can anyone point me at relevant reading for a discussion/ critique of the IDPoor system vs wealth ranking using SES from PCA. Has there been any investigation of the ranking/classification that results from the two approaches? Thank you.
I want to employ Iranian economists Darush Hayati and Bill Slee research work titled "Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Measurement of Rural Poverty: A case of Iran". I want to replicate the methodology that they have used for creating PMI (Poverty Measurement Index) which is a multidimensional index, to study the components multidimensional poverty in Darbhanga (Bihar). Mine will be a household level study as theirs and I want to go with certain region specific modifications, but the base will be the methodology that they have adopted. I will definitely give proper citation but I'm still skeptical about doing so as I don't want to commit any sort of plagiarism.
The difficulty of measuring and estimating child poverty in a territory requires a thorough selection of the criteria. With which to approach this field of study?
In poverty studies, some group are referred to as marginalized people and others as deprived people. I humbly would like to know the boundary between marginalization and deprivation?
Knowing of its connection to land degradation, accessing of markets, education, health, knowledge and human capital development, and income, among others, is it appropriate to say people are food (and nutrition) insecure because they are poor?
"Right of the poor to be fed" and "ability of the poor to feed themselves", which should be the priority for governments?
Which help in capturing deprivation in a holistic way