Is Poverty in Africa Mostly Chronic or Transient? : Evidence from Synthetic Panel Data
Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs repeated...
Main Authors: | Dang, Hai-Anh H., Dabalen, Andrew L. |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/172891492703250779/Is-Poverty-in-Africa-mostly-chronic-or-transient-evidence-from-synthetic-panel-data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26471 |
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