Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
11-2012
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new method of poverty decomposition. Our method remedies the shortcomings of existing methods and has some desirable properties such as time-reversion consistency and subperiod additivity. It integrates the existing methods of growth-redistribution decomposition and sector-based decomposition, because it allows us to decompose poverty change into growth and redistribution components for each group (e.g. regions or sectors) in the economy. We extend our method to have six components and provide an empirical application to the Philippines for the period 1985-2009.
Keywords
economic growth, FGT measure, inequality, inflation, poverty profile, Watts measure, Philippines
Discipline
Asian Studies | Growth and Development | Income Distribution
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
47
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 34-2012
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki.
Dynamic Poverty Decomposition Analysis: An Application to the Philippines. (2012). 1-47.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1415
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Comments
Published in World Development https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.031