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“…Two Complementary Views on What Drives Poverty Reduction Source : Based on Gill et al . () for the blue bars and Chatterjee et al . (2016) for the orange bars.…”
Section: Household Characteristics Versus Contextmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…One of those documents is an attempt to identify pathways to reducing poverty in India building on lessons from the last two decades (Chatterjee et al , ). The other offers a game plan to end extreme poverty in the world by 2030 (Gill et al , ). While the latter document has a global focus, India plays a prominent role in the reasoning, given the large number of poor people it still hosted earlier this century.…”
Section: Household Characteristics Versus Contextmentioning
SouthAsia's success at reducing poverty does not imply that the topic has become passé. Poverty rates are by now low, but this is because poverty lines are low as well. And the assessment of living standards and their dynamics are blurred by measurement and interpretation challenges. This paper relies mostly on South Asian examples to highlight four tensions: poorer versus richer households, rural versus urban locations, monetary versus non-monetary dimensions of wellbeing, and household characteristics versus context. The discussion is conducted against the backdrop of the two analytical approaches with South Asian roots that have shaped the debate for decades. This review leads to three main recommendations: household survey data has to be exploited in a more thorough manner, data that is increasingly available from other sources needs to be incorporated more systematically in the analysis, and the multiple dimensions of wellbeing should be better integrated in a common framework.JEL Codes: D31, I32, O1
“…Two Complementary Views on What Drives Poverty Reduction Source : Based on Gill et al . () for the blue bars and Chatterjee et al . (2016) for the orange bars.…”
Section: Household Characteristics Versus Contextmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…One of those documents is an attempt to identify pathways to reducing poverty in India building on lessons from the last two decades (Chatterjee et al , ). The other offers a game plan to end extreme poverty in the world by 2030 (Gill et al , ). While the latter document has a global focus, India plays a prominent role in the reasoning, given the large number of poor people it still hosted earlier this century.…”
Section: Household Characteristics Versus Contextmentioning
SouthAsia's success at reducing poverty does not imply that the topic has become passé. Poverty rates are by now low, but this is because poverty lines are low as well. And the assessment of living standards and their dynamics are blurred by measurement and interpretation challenges. This paper relies mostly on South Asian examples to highlight four tensions: poorer versus richer households, rural versus urban locations, monetary versus non-monetary dimensions of wellbeing, and household characteristics versus context. The discussion is conducted against the backdrop of the two analytical approaches with South Asian roots that have shaped the debate for decades. This review leads to three main recommendations: household survey data has to be exploited in a more thorough manner, data that is increasingly available from other sources needs to be incorporated more systematically in the analysis, and the multiple dimensions of wellbeing should be better integrated in a common framework.JEL Codes: D31, I32, O1
“…CCTs also protect the poor against the impacts of income shocks associated with seasonal income variations, loss of family breadwinners, famines, or adverse economic shocks. 93 CCTs smooth the consumption of the poor in the face of such shocks. Finally, CCTs enable households to take up investments that they would not otherwise take up, from their children's education to the purchase of livestock or other productive assets.…”
Section: Conditional Cash Transfersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, CCTs enable households to take up investments that they would not otherwise take up, from their children's education to the purchase of livestock or other productive assets. 94 As a result of their multiple functions, CCTs can reduce poverty considerably. Even though it is not an explicit objective of CCTs, by targeting additional incomes on most needy households and preventing household consumption to fall appreciably during periods of stress, CCTs may have equalizing effects in the short run.…”
“…11 See Figure 3.13 in Narayan et al (2018). 12 Permani (2009); World Bank (2018b); and Gill, Revenga and Zeballos (2016). 13 See, for example, Owen and Weil (1998), Galor and Tsiddon (1997), and Hassler and Mora (2000).…”
Section: Box Biia1 Absolute and Relative Intergenerational Mobilitymentioning
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