When do relative prices matter for measuring income inequality? The case of food prices in Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Salvucci, Vincenzo

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“…In this chapter, I follow the method proposed by Arndt et al (2015). 1 Consumption items are divided into three groups: core food items, non-core food items, and non-food items.…”

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Multidimensional Assessment of Child Welfare for Tanzania

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Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries

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'This book makes accessible the recent advances in consumption and multidimensional poverty measurement. The combination of literature review, computer code, and worked examples fill a major gap, making it possible for researchers in developing countries to estimate and analyse these metrics.' John F. Hoddinott, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food andNutrition Economics and Policy, Cornell University 'This excellent volume combines theoretical discussion of the utility-consistent cost of basic needs poverty approach and first-order dominance multidimensional poverty analysis, empirical application, and practical tools in the form of user guides for estimation software . . . essential reading for applied poverty researchers.'Paul Shaffer, Department of International Development Studies, Trent University Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing CountriesEdited Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. Some rights reserved. This is an open access publication. Except where otherwise noted, this work is distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), a copy of which is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/.It is permitted to reuse, share and adapt this work, subject to the following terms:Attribution -appropriate credit is given to the original work, the copyright holder and creator, and any changes made to the work are properly indicated.Non-Commercial -the work, or any adaptation of the work, may not be used, distributed or reproduced in any format, by any means, for commercial purposes.Share-Alike -the work, or any adaptation of the work is distributed under the same licence terms as the original, with a URL link provided to the licence.Enquiries concerning use outside the terms of the Creative Commons licence should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the above address or to academic.permissions@oup.com. ForewordDespite decades of research and advances in data and methodologies, measuring poverty and reconciling this with patterns of economic growth is a complex issue. This contentiousness, and the fact that poverty remains widespread and persistent in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and in other parts of the globe, charged UNU-WIDER to launch in 2011 a major research projectReconciling Africa's Growth, Poverty, and Inequality Trends: Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP)-to re-examine growth, poverty, and inequality trends in SSA and in other developing regions.Another key motivation for the GAPP project was that poverty analysis in developing countries remains, to a surprisingly high degree, an activity undertaken by technical assistance personnel and consultants based in developed countries. This book was designed to enhance the transparency, replicability, and comparability of existing practice; and in so doing, it also aim...

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“…In this chapter, I follow the method proposed by Arndt et al (2015). 1 Consumption items are divided into three groups: core food items, non-core food items, and non-food items.…”

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“…Although the Cobb-Douglas functional form assume constant returns to scale, and the same returns to scale across districts, it is possible that returns to scale vary at different levels of inputs and across districts. In particular provincial administrations may influence returns to scale and economies of scale and in spite of national directives prices vary across districts (Arndt, Jones et al 2015). Differences in the incentives for staff, such as the implementation of pay for performance schemes, which began to be applied in some provinces only in 2012, may also affect productivity.…”

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The efficiency of the local health systems: investigating the roles of health administrations and health care providers

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The analysis of efficiency in healthcare has largely focused either on individual healthcare providers, or on sub-national health systems conceived as a unique decision making unit.However, in hierarchically organised national health services, two separate entities are responsible for turning financial resources into services at the local level: health administrations and healthcare providers. Their separate roles and the one of health administrations in particular have not been explicitly considered in efficiency analysis.We applied Stochastic Frontier Analysis to district-level panel data from Mozambique to assess districts efficiency in delivering outpatient care. We first assessed the efficiency of the whole district considered as an individual decision making unit, and then we assessed separately the efficiency of health administrations and healthcare providers within the same district. We found that on average only 73% of the outpatient consultations deliverable with the given inputs were realized, with large differences in performance across districts.Individual districts performed differently in administrative or healthcare delivery functions.On average, a reduction of administrative inefficiency by 10 percentage points, for a given budget would increase by 0.2% the volume of services delivered per thousand population per year. Identifying and targeting the specific drivers of administrative inefficiencies can contribute to increase service delivery at local level.

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“…2 Arndt et al (2015) do not use a Paasche index. This study uses a true Paasche index as its properties are well known.…”

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When do relative prices matter for measuring income inequality? The case of food prices in Mozambique

Cited by 23 publications

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Multidimensional Assessment of Child Welfare for Tanzania

Multidimensional Assessment of Child Welfare for Tanzania

The efficiency of the local health systems: investigating the roles of health administrations and health care providers

Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries

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