Identification of Sources of Variation in Poverty Outcomes

摘要: The international community has declared poverty reduction one of the fundamental objectives development, and therefore a metric for assessing effectiveness development interventions. This creates need sound understanding factors that account observed variations in outcomes either over time or across space. Consistent with view such an entails deeper micro empirical work on growth distributional change, this paper reviews existing decomposition methods can be used to identify sources variation poverty. maintained hypothesis is living standard individual pay-off from her participation life society. In sense, depend endowments, behavior circumstances determine returns those endowments any social transaction. To contribution each these changes poverty, statistical structural reviewed all rely notion ceteris paribus variation. comparison outcome distribution counterfactual obtained by changing factor at while holding other constant.