Growth and Equity in Developing Countries: A Reinterpretation of the Sri Lankan Experience

Bhalla, Surjit S.; Glewwe, Paul

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“…It can be argued that stabilization is an important part of the social security function of anti-hunger and other 'basic-needs' oriented social policies such as those pursued by Sri-Lanka up to 1977. Failure to consider this aspect of such policies can lead to confusion when interpreting evidence on their basic-needs performance; for an example, see my (1986e) comments on Bhalla and Glewwe (1986).…”

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Market Responses to Anti-hunger Policies: Effects on Wages, Prices and Employment

Ravallion¹

1991

The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 2: Famine Prevention

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Market Responses to Anti-hunger Policies: Effects on Wages, Prices and Employment

Ravallion¹

1991

The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 2: Famine Prevention

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“…It should be noted that Sri Lanka is a positive outlier or a superior performer in every dimension of standards of living considered in the current study, exceptionally in the net primary enrollment rate and the under-5 survival rate (see �igure 2). The factors contributing to observed achievements have been the center of debate in the 1980s (Dreze and Sen 1989, Pyatt 1987, Bhalla and Glewwe 1986, Sen 1981, Isenman 1980. The countries with the best achievements identified here are also known for their excellent public welfare programs that include direct public provision of health, education, and other vital services.…”

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A Cross-Country Analysis of Achievements and Inequities in Economic Growth and Standards of Living

Son

2009

SSRN Journal

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“…Second, inaccurate price deflators can limit the reliability of inter-temporal income comparisons, while heights are strictly and easily comparable across time. Third, measurement of height is straightforward, and not subject to the errors in income or expenditure measurement that result from misreporting, differences in questionnaire design, recall periods, and even the nature of interviewer training (Bhalla and Glewwe 1986;Pradhan 2000;Scott and Amenuvegbe 1990;Demery and Mehra 1996;Deaton and Grosh 2000). To the extent that any of these errors is correlated with income itself, poverty decompositions will be biased.…”

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Improvements in children’s health: Does inequality matter?

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2005

J Econ Inequal

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Abstract:The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional changes uses only one measure of well-being --income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition using the height of young children as our measure of well-being. Similar to the income literature, we find that shifts in the mean level of heights, not changes in distribution, account for most improvements in heights. Unlike the literature on income inequality, however, there is a positive association between improvements in average heights and reduced dispersion of those heights.1

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Growth and Equity in Developing Countries: A Reinterpretation of the Sri Lankan Experience

Cited by 62 publications

References 7 publications

Market Responses to Anti-hunger Policies: Effects on Wages, Prices and Employment

Market Responses to Anti-hunger Policies: Effects on Wages, Prices and Employment

A Cross-Country Analysis of Achievements and Inequities in Economic Growth and Standards of Living

Improvements in children’s health: Does inequality matter?

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