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World Institute for Development Economics Research

FacilityHelsinki, Finland
About: World Institute for Development Economics Research is a facility organization based out in Helsinki, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poverty & Population. The organization has 110 authors who have published 525 publications receiving 17316 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of debt relief initiatives on primary school attendance in low-income countries by exploiting the temporal variation in the implementation of these policies, in combination with individual-level data from 177 Demographic and Health Surveys covering more than 1.5 million school age children from 44 low income countries to implement difference-in-differences and spatial difference indiscontinuity estimators.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a threshold switching function is used to identify who is multidimensionalally poor, but the weights and cut-off employed in this procedure are generally not unique and such functions implicitly assume all groups of deprivation indicators of some fixed size are perfect substitutes.
Abstract: In the popular class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), a threshold switching function is used to identify who is multidimensionally poor. This paper shows that the weights and cut-off employed in this procedure are generally not unique and that such functions implicitly assume all groups of deprivation indicators of some fixed size are perfect substitutes. To address these limitations, I show how the identification procedure can be extended to incorporate any type of positive switching function, represented by the set of minimal deprivation bundles that define a unit as poor. Furthermore, the Banzhaf power index, uniquely defined from the same set of minimal bundles, constitutes a natural and robust metric of the relative importance of each indicator, from which the adjusted headcount can be estimated. I demonstrate the merit of this approach using data from Mozambique, including a decomposition of the adjusted headcount using a ‘one from each dimension’ non-threshold function.

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TL;DR: The authors argue that single experiments in this area are often essentially single case studies and that generalizing from them suffers from the same (well-established) problems of generalising from all single case-studies.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that human well-being is best treated as a multidimensional concept along the lines advocated by Sen (1985, 1993), Stewart (1985), Doyal & Gough (1991), Ramsay (1992), Cummins (1996), Narayan et al. (2000), Nussbaum (2000) and others, as summarised in Alkire (2002).
Abstract: The world has undergone rapid and tremendous change in recent decades. While many nations have achieved ever-higher per capita incomes, and higher well-being according to traditional measures, they have also experienced profound internal change. This change has lead to widespread concerns regarding social exclusion, human security, levels of personal satisfaction and happiness. Other countries have faired much less well, as according to many well-being measures they are worse off than they were 10 or 20 years ago. Life expectancies, for example, have fallen dramatically in many countries and are likely to fall substantially in others. The incidence of income poverty is higher today in many countries than it was ten years ago. Worldwide, more than a billion people currently live on less than one dollar per day. Social science research on living standards, human well-being and quality of life has come a long way over recent years, altering in response to changing global conditions, new research priorities, new conceptualisations and improved data resources. Twenty five years ago, national well-being achievement comparisons relied very heavily, and in some circles exclusively, on measures of income per capita. The same exercise would today be based a range of indicators, including summary measures of human well-being such as the well-known Human Development Index (UNDP, 2005). This is consistent with the commonly accepted view that human well-being is best treated as a multidimensional concept along the lines advocated by Sen (1985, 1993), Stewart (1985), Doyal & Gough (1991), Ramsay (1992), Cummins (1996), Narayan et al. (2000) or Nussbaum (2000) and others, as summarised in Alkire (2002). This view tends not to reject the relevance of income based or economic measures per se, simply positing that there is more to well-being achievement than simply increasing incomes. The widespread acceptance that well-being is multidimensional has more recently been accompanied by another important recognition. This relates not so much to current levels of well-being, but to the likelihood of declines in future levels. This recognition has spawned a rapidly growing literature on what is now termed as ‘vulnerability’. The vulnerability literature has primarily been concerned with the likelihood of individuals falling below the poverty line, be it defined in terms of income, consumption or health. Among the influential early vulnerability studies are Ravallion (1998), Jalan & Ravallion (1998) and Dercon & Krishnan (1999), each of which distinguished between transient and chronic poverty.

1 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between border tax rates and evasion was examined for Mozambique using the methodology developed by Fisman and Wei (2004) and they found that high tax rates are associated with high levels of underreporting of import values and that tax rates have a strong and positive effect on tax evasion.
Abstract: The relationship between border tax rates and evasion is examined for Mozambique using the methodology developed by Fisman and Wei (2004). We find that high tax rates are associated with high levels of under-reporting of import values and that tax rates have a strong and positive effect on tax evasion. Results also strongly confirm the presence of fraudulent classification of merchandise into lower taxed product categories. Finally, analysis of the revenue implications of lower trade taxes finds that the revenue curve is quite flat but remains upward sloping with respect to the tax rate when only evasion is considered.

1 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Partha Dasgupta8532338303
Richard Layard5826223309
Sherman Robinson5735421470
Finn Tarp5440513156
Mark McGillivray461615877
Almas Heshmati434049088
Wim Naudé432477400
Luc Christiaensen411638055
James Thurlow401595362
Channing Arndt392054999
Anthony F. Shorrocks388112144
Laurence R. Harris372174774
Nanak Kakwani371459121
Giovanni Andrea Cornia361594897
George Mavrotas35814686
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20234
20225
202124
202016
201921
201820