Author
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- JOSEPH DEUTSCH
(Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- JACQUES SILBER
(Bar-Ilan University, Israel2LISER, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg3Centro Camilo Dagum, Tuscan Interuniversity Centre, Advanced Statistics for Equitable and Sustainable Development, Italy)
- YONGSHENG XU
(Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA)
- GUANGHUA WAN
(Fudan University, P. R. China)
Abstract
This paper examines the evolution of inequality, poverty and welfare in the South Caucasian Asian states, using an aggregate index based on consumer durables available to the households. Instead of using principal components analysis to aggregate asset indicators into an overall asset index, we propose an ordinal approach to using data on assets, when estimating the wealth of a household (or individual). Using three different approaches (the concept of order of acquisition of durable goods, item response theory and correspondence analysis), we first derive the order of importance of the different assets. Then, we compute indices introduced recently to measure inequality, poverty and achievement, when only ordinal variables are available. Our empirical analysis, based on data collected by the Caucasus Barometer and covering the three states in South Caucasus shows that there exists such an order, that it does not really depend on the statistical approach adopted and that it was very similar in 2009 and 2013. Our results show that among the three countries analyzed, Armenia had the lowest degree of inequality in asset ownership and Georgia the highest. Whatever the approach or index used, ordinal inequality, increased in Armenia and Azerbaijan between 2009 and 2013, but slightly decreased during that period in Georgia. It also appears that poverty decreased in all three countries during this period. There was also important growth, when measuring the latter via the welfare index recently introduced by Apouey et al. (2019), assuming their parameter α→1.
Suggested Citation
Joseph Deutsch & Jacques Silber & Yongsheng Xu & Guanghua Wan, 2020.
"Measuring Inequality, Poverty, Growth And Welfare Via The Use Of Asset Indexes: The Case Of Armenia, Azerbaijan And Georgia,"
The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 65(supp01), pages 7-33, December.
Handle:
RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:65:y:2020:i:supp01:n:s0217590819440016
DOI: 10.1142/S0217590819440016
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