Growth, Poverty and Inequality Dynamics : Four Empirical Essays at the Macro and Micro Level

Growth, Poverty and Inequality Dynamics Four Empirical Essays at the Macro and Micro Level

Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving human development, or in other words, economic growth is an important pre-requisite for the ultimate goal of human well-being. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weisbrod, Julian (-)
Formato: Tesis
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2008.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics.
Materias:
Quantitative research.
Political science.
Economic development.
Development economics.
Developing countries > Economic conditions.
Dynamics
Economic Development
Economic Growth
Einkommensverteilung
Empirical
Essays
Four
Geschichte 1970-2006
Growth
Inequality
Level
Macro
Micro
Panel Data Analysis
Poverty
Pro-Poor Growth
Weisbrod
Wirtschaftswachstum
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428784806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction and Overview
  • 1 Twin Peaks or Three Components?
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Statistical Methodology and Data
  • 1.2.1 Data
  • 1.2.2 Testing for the Number of Components in a Finite Mixture - the Modified Likelihood Ratio Test
  • 1.2.3 Discriminant Analysis via Posterior Probabilities
  • 1.2.4 Nonparametric Kernel Density Estimation and Mode Testing
  • 1.3 Results
  • 1.3.1 Selecting the Number of Components
  • 1.3.2 Evolution of the Cross-Country Distribution of Income
  • 1.3.3 Intra-Distributional Dynamics Based on Posterior Probabilities
  • 1.4 Conclusion
  • 1.5 Extension: Mixtures with Distinct Variances
  • 2 Global Income Distribution Dynamics and Pro-Poor Growth
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Methodology and Data
  • 2.2.1 Data
  • 2.2.2 Mixtures of Log-normal Distributions
  • 2.3 The Global Income Distribution
  • 2.3.1 Inequality and Poverty
  • 2.3.2 Growth Incidence Curves and Pro-Poor Growth
  • 2.4 Regional Distributions, Inequality, Poverty and Growth Incidence Curves
  • 2.4.1 Regional Income and Log-Income Distributions
  • 2.4.2 Regional Poverty and Inequality Measures
  • 2.4.3 Regional Semi-Decade Specific Growth Rates, Rates of Pro-poor Growth and Growth Incidence Curves
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • 3 Ethnic Fractionalisation, Migration and Growth
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Theoretical Framework
  • 3.3 Existing Empirical Investigations
  • 3.4 Data and Methodology
  • 3.5 Results
  • 3.5.1 Extending the Data Set
  • 3.5.2 Migration and Ethnic Fractionalisation
  • 3.6 Conclusion and Future Research Questions
  • 4 Pathways out of Poverty in Indonesia
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Conceptualisation and Methodological Issues
  • 4.2.1 Conceptualisation and the "Naive" Model
  • 4.2.2 Data
  • 4.2.3 Poverty Line
  • 4.3 Descriptive Analysis, Income &amp
  • Poverty Transition Matrices.
  • 4.3.1 Descriptive Statistics
  • 4.3.2 Income Growth
  • 4.3.3 Poverty Transitions
  • 4.4 Micro Determinants of Income and Poverty Transitions
  • 4.4.1 The Determinants of Income and Poverty Levels
  • 4.4.2 The Determinants of Income Change
  • 4.4.3 Poverty Dynamics
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • A Appendix A
  • B Appendix B
  • C Appendix C
  • D Appendix D
  • Bibliography.

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