Counterfactual Decomposition of Pro-Poorness Using Influence Functions

Essama-Nssah, B. ; Lambert, Peter J.

Taylor and Francis

关键词: pro-poorness;    counterfactual analysis;    economic growth;    influence function;    social evaluation;   

DOI  :  10.1080/19452829.2015.1115392
RP-ID  :  104054

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Poverty reduction has emerged as a fundamental social objective of development, and has become a metric commonly used to assess the performance of public policy. This paper adapts the methodology of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009) [2009. “Unconditional Quantile Regressions.” Econometrica 77 (3): 953–973] to the measurement of the pro-poorness of income growth. The method allows the analyst to identify co-variates that affect poverty reduction. The methodology is policy-relevant because policy-makers can better target these co-variates than the average level of income, or the level of inequality. We demonstrate this by application to Bangladesh 2000–2010.