Publication Type

Working Paper

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

10-2015

Abstract

We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to ascribe the observed change in poverty to various covariates of interest collected at a disaggregate level. This method is applied to two datasets from Tanzania to assess, among others, the short- and long-term impacts of infrastructure and market access on poverty.

Keywords

FGT measure, Watts measure, market access, infrastructure

Discipline

Econometrics

Research Areas

Econometrics

First Page

1

Last Page

34

Identifier

10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/991-6

Publisher

WIDER Working Paper 102/2015

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Econometrics Commons

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