Constructing Robust Poverty Trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2008-14
This paper constructs and tests the robustness of consistently measured poverty trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran after 2008, using international poverty lines based on U.S. dollars at 2011 purchasing power parity. The constructed estimates re...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26818983/constructing-robust-poverty-trends-islamic-republic-iran-2008-14 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25152 |
| Summary: | This paper constructs and tests the
robustness of consistently measured poverty trends in the
Islamic Republic of Iran after 2008, using international
poverty lines based on U.S. dollars at 2011 purchasing power
parity. The constructed estimates reveal three distinct
periods of welfare in the Islamic Republic of Iran: increase
in poverty and inequality between 2008 and 2009, decline in
poverty and inequality between 2009 and 2012, and gradual
deterioration of both indicators again after 2012. The
results are robust regardless of the choice of welfare
aggregate, inclusion or exclusion of different components,
and spatial adjustment accounting for regional variation in
food and housing prices. |
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