Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility

Davalos, Maria E. ; Meyer, Moritz

World Bank Group, Washington, DC

关键词: AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION;    AGRICULTURAL SECTOR;    ANNUAL GROWTH;    ANNUAL GROWTH RATE;    AVERAGE GROWTH;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7167
RP-ID  :  WPS7167

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

During the early 2000s, Moldovaexperienced strong economic growth and poverty andinequality reductions. This paper aims at uncovering thepatterns behind these poverty trends by looking at economicmobility and its associated factors in Moldova. The findingsbuild on the synthetic panel approach and allow for anon-anonymous view of the process of poverty reduction. Thedata used for this country study on Moldova come from theHousehold Budget Survey, which is conducted on a yearlybasis. The paper presents transition matrices to look at thepatterns of economic mobility across selected consumptionthresholds, as well as descriptive statistics and a linearprobability model aimed at identifying correlates ofeconomic mobility. The findings show that the observedpoverty reductions happened with little churning, andhighlight the importance of education and employment onupward economic mobility in Moldova in the 2000s, as well asthe role of public and private transfers.