Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India
Assessment of the welfare impacts of low-frequency events, such as macroeconomic crises and stabilizations, are often confounded by sampling and nonsampling errors that generate fluctuations in household survey-based welfare indicators; they are also limited by our ability to explain fluctuations in...
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1996
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| author | Datt, Gaurav Ravallion, Martin |
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| description | Assessment of the welfare impacts of low-frequency events, such as macroeconomic crises and stabilizations, are often confounded by sampling and nonsampling errors that generate fluctuations in household survey-based welfare indicators; they are also limited by our ability to explain fluctuations in terms of other available data. Basing policy on short-term movements in welfare indicators can thus be hazardous. There was a sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the mid-1991 crisis and the ensuing stabilization reforms. However, only one-tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock. Poverty measures soon returned to their pre-reform levels, belying the notion of a reforms-induced structural break. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1571012025-11-06T07:04:36Z Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India Datt, Gaurav Ravallion, Martin poverty welfare economics macroeconomics assessment Assessment of the welfare impacts of low-frequency events, such as macroeconomic crises and stabilizations, are often confounded by sampling and nonsampling errors that generate fluctuations in household survey-based welfare indicators; they are also limited by our ability to explain fluctuations in terms of other available data. Basing policy on short-term movements in welfare indicators can thus be hazardous. There was a sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the mid-1991 crisis and the ensuing stabilization reforms. However, only one-tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock. Poverty measures soon returned to their pre-reform levels, belying the notion of a reforms-induced structural break. 1996 2024-10-24T12:47:20Z 2024-10-24T12:47:20Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157101 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin. 1996. Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India. FCND Discussion Paper 20. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157101 |
| spellingShingle | poverty welfare economics macroeconomics assessment Datt, Gaurav Ravallion, Martin Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India |
| title | Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India |
| title_full | Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India |
| title_fullStr | Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India |
| title_short | Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India |
| title_sort | macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring a case study for india |
| topic | poverty welfare economics macroeconomics assessment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157101 |
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