Economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries

By B. Baulch, John Hoddinott. 2000

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Comparing Food and Cash Transfers to the Ultra Poor in Bangladesh (2010, background): “The Impact of Increasing Women’s Control of Resources A growing body of empirical evidence has shown that the unitary model is inadequate to capture household dynamics; this evidence has been reviewed by Strauss and Thomas (1995), Behrman (1997), Haddad, Hoddinott, and Alderman (1997), and Quisumbin”
Rural poverty dynamics: development policy implications (2003, background): “…inflates estimates of transitory poverty by creating artificial variability in incomes, leading to 3 See in particular one of the original studies in this vein, by Grootaert and Kanbur (1995), the excellent recent volume by Baulch and Hoddinott (2000), and the various studies cited therein.”
Chronic Poverty and All that: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time (2007, methodology): “For example, Baulch and Hoddinott (2000) summarize a number of studies, using panel data, by counting ‘poverty spells’, whereby they mean how often people are observed to be poor in a particular period, and also using simple concepts of poverty mobility based on poverty transition matrices,…”
Social protection and poverty (2011, background): “Baulch and Hoddinott (2000) reviewed the conceptual and empirical knowledge on poverty duration in developing countries, and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre has worked to stimulate research on this important issue (CPRC 2005).”
Household income dynamics: a four-country story (2003, methodology): “For surveys of the available literature, see Baulch and Hoddinott [Baulch and Hoddinott, 2000] and Fields [Fields, 2001].”
Global Oil Prices and Local Food Prices: Evidence from East Africa (2016, neutral): “More broadly, our findings add to the large literature on food security, vulnerability to shocks, and economics outcomes for rural households in poor countries (Baulch and Hoddinott 2000, Dercon 2002, Barrett et al. 2006, Jack and Suri 2014).”
Understanding poverty dynamics in Kenya (2010, neutral): “Several recent studies use an explicit growth model and consumption or expenditure measures to study rural household-level poverty dynamics (Baulch and Hoddinott, 2000; Deininger and Okidi, 2003; Jayne et al., 2003; Dercon, 2004; Jalan and Ravallion, 2004).”
Determinants, persistence, and dynamics of energy poverty: An empirical assessment using German household survey data (2021, background): “…second step, we follow the literature on income poverty dynamics and distinguish between chronic and transient energy poverty based on the count of periods that households spend in energy poverty (Baulch & Hoddinott, 2000; Finnie & Sweetman, 2003; Biewen, 2006; Foster, 2009; Foster & Santos, 2013).”
Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review (2001, background): “6 For a review on studies using panel data sets see Baulch and Hoddinott (2000). See Bigsten, Kronlid, and Makkonen (2000) for evidence on income mobility in urban Ethiopia.”
Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China (2010, methodology): “As shown in ( 4 ), this is assessed using average income over t time periods.”
Economic Crises and Natural Disasters: Coping Strategies and Policy Implications (2003, background): “Household income is known to be very volatile, and thus an important percentage of the population of a country move in and out of poverty periodically, even in noncrisis environments (Baulch & Hoddinott, 2000).”
Frameworks for Understanding the Inter-Generational Transmission of Poverty and Well-Being in Developing Countries (2001, background): “Indeed, as Baulch and Hoddinott (2000) note, only twelve of the 110 low and medium human development countries (as per the UNDP’s 1998 definitions) have household level data that allow poverty dynamics analysis.”
Livelihood Insecurity and Social Protection: A Re‐emerging Issue in Rural Development (2001, background): “poverty analysis (Siegel and Alwang, 1999), and recent research into ‘poverty dynamics’ (Baulch and Hoddinott, 2000), income variability has been rediscovered by mainstream economists as a significant feature of living in poverty.”
Escaping poverty and becoming poor: who gains, who loses, and why? Accounting for stability and change in 35 North Indian villages. (2003, background): “Two distinct sets of policies are required thus, one set to promote escape from poverty and another set to arrest decline into poverty.”