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Microdeterminants of consumption, poverty, growth, and inequality in Bangladesh

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  • Wodon, Quentin T.

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Using household data from five successive national surveys, the author analyzes the microdeterminants of (and changes in) consumption, poverty, growth, and inequality in Bangladesh from 1983 to 1996. Education, demographics, land ownership, occupation, and geographic location all affect consumption and poverty. The gains in per capita consumption associated with many of these household characteristics tend to be stable over time. Returns to demographics (variables in household size) have the greatest impact on growth, perhaps because of improving employment opportunities for women. Education (in urban areas) and land (in rural areas) contribute most to measures of between-group inequality. Location takes second place, in both urban and rural areas. The author introduces the concept of conditional between-group inequality. Existing group decompositions of the Gini index along one variable do not control for other characteristics correlated with that variable. Conditional between-group Ginis avoid this pitfall. He also shows how to use unconditional and conditional between-group Ginis for simulating policies.

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 2076.

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Date of creation: 31 Mar 1999
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Keywords: Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Environmental Economics&Policies; Services&Transfers to Poor; Public Health Promotion; Housing&Human Habitats; Inequality; Poverty Assessment; Environmental Economics&Policies; Services&Transfers to Poor; Safety Nets and Transfers;

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  1. Wodon, Quentin T, 1999. "Between Group Inequality and Targeted Transfers," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 45(1), pages 21-39, March.
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  4. Ravallion, Martin & Huppi, Monika, 1991. "Measuring Changes in Poverty: A Methodological Case Study of Indonesia during an Adjustment Period," World Bank Economic Review, World Bank Group, vol. 5(1), pages 57-82, January.
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  7. Quentin Wodon, 1997. "Food energy intake and cost of basic needs: Measuring poverty in Bangladesh," The Journal of Development Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 34(2), pages 66-101.
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