Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility

During the early 2000s, Moldova experienced strong economic growth and poverty and inequality reductions. This paper aims at uncovering the patterns behind these poverty trends by looking at economic mobility and its associated factors in Moldova....

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Main Authors:	Davalos, Maria E., Meyer, Moritz
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE AVERAGE GROWTH BASIC EDUCATION CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CHANGES IN POVERTY CHRONIC POVERTY CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION MEASURE CONSUMPTION POVERTY DATA AVAILABILITY DECLINE IN POVERTY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIFFERENT REGION DISAGGREGATED LEVEL DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES DROUGHT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPIRICAL MODEL ERROR TERM ERROR TERMS ESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS ESTIMATION RESULTS ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXTREME POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE FEMALE FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FINANCIAL CRISIS FIXED EFFECTS GENDER GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEALTH EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICS HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSING HUMAN CAPITAL IDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS INCOME INCOME GROWTH INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKETS LABOR MOBILITY LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT MEAN GROWTH MEASURING POVERTY MOBILITY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NEGATIVE IMPACT NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS PER CAPITA GROWTH POINT ESTIMATES POLICY AREAS POLICY DISCUSSION POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY PERSPECTIVE POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY CHANGES POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY FOCUS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SERIES POVERTY THRESHOLD PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIVATE TRANSFERS PRO-POOR REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL ANALYSIS REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS REGIONAL LEVEL REGIONAL POVERTY REGIONAL POVERTY LINE RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL GROWTH RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL LABOR MARKET RURAL PHENOMENON RURAL POVERTY SECTORAL COMPOSITION SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION STANDARD DEVIATION UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBAN GROWTH URBAN POVERTY WAGE EMPLOYMENT WELFARE DISTRIBUTION
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spelling	okr-10986-213842021-04-23T14:04:02Z Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility Davalos, Maria E. Meyer, Moritz AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE AVERAGE GROWTH BASIC EDUCATION CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CHANGES IN POVERTY CHRONIC POVERTY CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION MEASURE CONSUMPTION POVERTY DATA AVAILABILITY DECLINE IN POVERTY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIFFERENT REGION DISAGGREGATED LEVEL DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES DROUGHT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPIRICAL MODEL ERROR TERM ERROR TERMS ESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS ESTIMATION RESULTS ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXTREME POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE FEMALE FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FINANCIAL CRISIS FIXED EFFECTS GENDER GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEALTH EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICS HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSING HUMAN CAPITAL IDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS INCOME INCOME GROWTH INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKETS LABOR MOBILITY LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT MEAN GROWTH MEASURING POVERTY MOBILITY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NEGATIVE IMPACT NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS PER CAPITA GROWTH POINT ESTIMATES POLICY AREAS POLICY DISCUSSION POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY PERSPECTIVE POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY CHANGES POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY FOCUS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SERIES POVERTY THRESHOLD PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIVATE TRANSFERS PRO-POOR REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL ANALYSIS REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS REGIONAL LEVEL REGIONAL POVERTY REGIONAL POVERTY LINE RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL GROWTH RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL LABOR MARKET RURAL PHENOMENON RURAL POVERTY SECTORAL COMPOSITION SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION STANDARD DEVIATION UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBAN GROWTH URBAN POVERTY WAGE EMPLOYMENT WELFARE DISTRIBUTION During the early 2000s, Moldova experienced strong economic growth and poverty and inequality reductions. This paper aims at uncovering the patterns behind these poverty trends by looking at economic mobility and its associated factors in Moldova. The findings build on the synthetic panel approach and allow for a non-anonymous view of the process of poverty reduction. The data used for this country study on Moldova come from the Household Budget Survey, which is conducted on a yearly basis. The paper presents transition matrices to look at the patterns of economic mobility across selected consumption thresholds, as well as descriptive statistics and a linear probability model aimed at identifying correlates of economic mobility. The findings show that the observed poverty reductions happened with little churning, and highlight the importance of education and employment on upward economic mobility in Moldova in the 2000s, as well as the role of public and private transfers. 2015-02-03T15:24:41Z 2015-02-03T15:24:41Z 2015-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/01/23839214/moldova-story-upward-economic-mobility http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21384 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7167 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Moldova
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topic	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE AVERAGE GROWTH BASIC EDUCATION CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CHANGES IN POVERTY CHRONIC POVERTY CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION MEASURE CONSUMPTION POVERTY DATA AVAILABILITY DECLINE IN POVERTY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIFFERENT REGION DISAGGREGATED LEVEL DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES DROUGHT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPIRICAL MODEL ERROR TERM ERROR TERMS ESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS ESTIMATION RESULTS ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXTREME POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE FEMALE FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FINANCIAL CRISIS FIXED EFFECTS GENDER GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEALTH EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICS HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSING HUMAN CAPITAL IDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS INCOME INCOME GROWTH INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKETS LABOR MOBILITY LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT MEAN GROWTH MEASURING POVERTY MOBILITY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NEGATIVE IMPACT NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS PER CAPITA GROWTH POINT ESTIMATES POLICY AREAS POLICY DISCUSSION POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY PERSPECTIVE POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY CHANGES POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY FOCUS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SERIES POVERTY THRESHOLD PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIVATE TRANSFERS PRO-POOR REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL ANALYSIS REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS REGIONAL LEVEL REGIONAL POVERTY REGIONAL POVERTY LINE RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL GROWTH RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL LABOR MARKET RURAL PHENOMENON RURAL POVERTY SECTORAL COMPOSITION SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION STANDARD DEVIATION UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBAN GROWTH URBAN POVERTY WAGE EMPLOYMENT WELFARE DISTRIBUTION
spellingShingle	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE AVERAGE GROWTH BASIC EDUCATION CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CHANGES IN POVERTY CHRONIC POVERTY CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION MEASURE CONSUMPTION POVERTY DATA AVAILABILITY DECLINE IN POVERTY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIFFERENT REGION DISAGGREGATED LEVEL DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES DROUGHT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPIRICAL MODEL ERROR TERM ERROR TERMS ESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS ESTIMATION RESULTS ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXTREME POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE FEMALE FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FINANCIAL CRISIS FIXED EFFECTS GENDER GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEALTH EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICS HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSING HUMAN CAPITAL IDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS INCOME INCOME GROWTH INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKETS LABOR MOBILITY LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT MEAN GROWTH MEASURING POVERTY MOBILITY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NEGATIVE IMPACT NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS PER CAPITA GROWTH POINT ESTIMATES POLICY AREAS POLICY DISCUSSION POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY PERSPECTIVE POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL INSTABILITY POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY CHANGES POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY FOCUS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SERIES POVERTY THRESHOLD PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIVATE TRANSFERS PRO-POOR REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL ANALYSIS REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS REGIONAL LEVEL REGIONAL POVERTY REGIONAL POVERTY LINE RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL GROWTH RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL LABOR MARKET RURAL PHENOMENON RURAL POVERTY SECTORAL COMPOSITION SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION STANDARD DEVIATION UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBAN GROWTH URBAN POVERTY WAGE EMPLOYMENT WELFARE DISTRIBUTION Davalos, Maria E. Meyer, Moritz Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility
geographic_facet	Europe and Central Asia Moldova
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7167
description	During the early 2000s, Moldova experienced strong economic growth and poverty and inequality reductions. This paper aims at uncovering the patterns behind these poverty trends by looking at economic mobility and its associated factors in Moldova. The findings build on the synthetic panel approach and allow for a non-anonymous view of the process of poverty reduction. The data used for this country study on Moldova come from the Household Budget Survey, which is conducted on a yearly basis. The paper presents transition matrices to look at the patterns of economic mobility across selected consumption thresholds, as well as descriptive statistics and a linear probability model aimed at identifying correlates of economic mobility. The findings show that the observed poverty reductions happened with little churning, and highlight the importance of education and employment on upward economic mobility in Moldova in the 2000s, as well as the role of public and private transfers.
format	Publications & Research
author	Davalos, Maria E. Meyer, Moritz
author_facet	Davalos, Maria E. Meyer, Moritz
author_sort	Davalos, Maria E.
title	Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility
title_short	Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility
title_full	Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility
title_fullStr	Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility
title_full_unstemmed	Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility
title_sort	moldova : a story of upward economic mobility
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/01/23839214/moldova-story-upward-economic-mobility http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21384
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Moldova : A Story of Upward Economic Mobility

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