Robustness of Subjective Welfare            Analysis in a Poor Developing Country: Madagascar 2001

Paternostro, Stefano; Lokshin, Michael; Umapathi, Nithin

Robustness of Subjective Welfare Analysis in a Poor Developing Country: Madagascar 2001

Autores

Paternostro, Stefano

Lokshin, Michael

Umapathi, Nithin

Editor

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Descripción

The authors analyze the subjective perceptions of poverty in Madagascar in 2001 and their relationship to objective poverty indicators. They base their analysis on survey responses to a series of subjective perception questions. The authors extend the existing empirical methodology for estimating subjective poverty lines on the basis of categorical consumption adequacy questions. Based on this methodology they calculate the household-specific, subjective poverty lines and compare the poverty profiles derived from different subjective welfare questions. The results show that the aggregate poverty measures derived from consumption adequacy questions accord quite well with the poverty measures based on objective poverty lines. The subjective welfare analysis can be used in poor developing countries for evaluating socioeconomic and distributional impacts of various policy interventions.

Palabras clave

ABSOLUTE POVERTY, ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINES, AGE-GENDER GROUPS, AVERAGE LEVEL, CALORIC INTAKE, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY, CONSUMPTION NEEDS, CONSUMPTION NORMS, CONSUMPTION PATTERNS, DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION, DEPENDENT VARIABLE, DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRY, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES, DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION, ECONOMETRICS, ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR, ECONOMIC CRISES, ECONOMIC DECLINE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC LITERATURE, ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, ECONOMIC REVIEW, ECONOMIC WELFARE, ECONOMIES OF SCALE, ECONOMISTS, ELASTICITIES, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, EMPIRICAL STUDIES, EQUIVALENCE SCALE, ERROR TERM, EXPENDITURE DISTRIBUTION, EXPENDITURE LEVEL, EXPLANATORY VARIABLES, FARM ACTIVITIES, FISHING, FOOD BASKET, FOOD COMPONENT, FOOD CONSUMPTION, FOOD ENERGY, FOOD ENERGY INTAKE, FOOD EXPENDITURE, FOOD EXPENDITURES, FOOD POVERTY, FOOD POVERTY LINE, FOOD REQUIREMENTS, FORESTRY, GDP, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH EXPENDITURES, HIGH POVERTY, HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS, HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE, HOUSEHOLD HEAD, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD LEVEL, HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS, HOUSEHOLD POVERTY, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOUSEHOLD WELFARE, INCIDENCE OF POVERTY, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCREASE POVERTY, INFLATION, LABOR MARKET, LABOR MARKET ACTIVITIES, LIVING STANDARD, MEAN INCOME, MEASURING POVERTY, MEASURING WELFARE, NATIONAL LEVEL, NATIONAL POVERTY, NON- FOOD CONSUMPTION, NON-FOOD COMPONENT, NON-FOOD COMPONENTS, NON-FOOD CONSUMPTION, NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS, OBJECTIVE POVERTY LINES, PARTICULAR POVERTY LINE, PER CAPITA BASIS, PER CAPITA INCOME, POLICY INTERVENTIONS, POLICY RESEARCH, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POOR, POOR COUNTRIES, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POOR PEOPLE, POPULATION GROUPS, POPULATION GROWTH, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, POVERTY ALLEVIATION POLICIES, POVERTY ANALYSIS, POVERTY COMPARISONS, POVERTY ESTIMATES, POVERTY HEADCOUNT, POVERTY INDICATORS, POVERTY LEVELS, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY LINES, POVERTY MEASURE, POVERTY MEASURES, POVERTY PROFILE, POVERTY PROFILES, POVERTY PROGRAMS, POVERTY RATE, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY STATISTICS, POVERTY TRENDS, PRIVATE TRANSFERS, PUBLIC SECTOR, QUANTITATIVE POVERTY, REGIONAL DIFFERENCES, REGIONAL POVERTY, REGIONAL PRICE DIFFERENCES, RELATIVE INCOME, RURAL AREAS, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, SAMPLE SIZE, SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION, SIGNIFICANT EFFECT, SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLDS, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS, SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS, SUBJECTIVE POVERTY, SUBJECTIVE POVERTY LINE, TRADEOFFS, TRANSITION ECONOMIES, UNEMPLOYMENT, URBAN AREAS, URBAN HOUSEHOLDS, WELFARE AGGREGATE, WELFARE COMPARISONS, WELFARE EFFECTS, WELFARE FUNCTION, WELFARE INDICATOR, WELFARE INDICATORS WELFARE ECONOMICS, POVERTY INCIDENCE, ANALYTICAL METHODS, POVERTY LINE, CONSUMPTION (ECONOMICS), HOUSEHOLD DATA, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, POVERTY PROFILE, POVERTY MEASURES, SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS, DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT, POLICY IMPLEMENTATION