Measuring Poverty Dynamics and Inequality in Transition Economies

Measuring Poverty Dynamics and Inequality in Transition Economies PDF Author: Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Publisher: World Bank Publications
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Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Estimates of income inequality and the dynamics of poverty are highly sensitive to measurement error and transitory shocks in micro-level data. The apparent high levels of economic mobility in Poland and Russia are driven largely by transitory shocks and noisy data. There is a real risk of an entrenched underclass emerging in these transition economies.