The State and Path of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: some Preliminary Results

By A. Ali, E. Thorbecke. 2000

123 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. A. Fosu
2. J. Greer
3. E. Thorbecke
4. James E. Foster
5. Simplice A. Asongu
6. Vanessa S. Tchamyou
7. Stefan Dercon
8. Cesar Calvo

In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Fosu
2. J. Greer
3. James E. Foster
4. E. Thorbecke
5. Simplice A. Asongu
6. S. Alkire
7. Vanessa S. Tchamyou
8. Stefan Dercon

Citations in the corpus

• Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence (2017, background): “Regionally, based on cross-country African data, Ali and Thorbecke (2000) find that poverty is more sensitive to income inequality than it is to the level of income.”
• The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later (2010, unknown): “Some progress in this direction includes work by Ali and Thorbecke (2000), Atkinson and Bourguignon (2001), Foster and Szekely (2008), and Ravallion (2009); for a treatment of a related line of research in the measurement of welfare, see Atkinson and Brandolini (2008).”
• The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later (2010, methodology): “Some progress in this direction includes work by Ali and Thorbecke [1], Atkinson and Bourguignon [10], Foster [56], and Ravallion and Chen [107]; for a treatment of a related line of research in the measurement of welfare, see Atkinson and Brandolini [11].”
• Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress in a Global Context (2015, methodology): “Using cross-country African data, Ali & Thorbecke (2000), for example, find that poverty is more sensitive to inequality than it is to income changes.”
• Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, unknown): “…policy to properly understand growth elasticities (Adam, 2004), inter alia: how income distribution affects poverty (Datt & Ravallion, 1992; Kakwani, 1993; Ali & Thorbecke, 2000) and; the importance of inequality in the response of poverty to growth (Ravallion, 1997; Easterly, 2000; Fosu, 2014).”