[PDF] Top 20 Household expenditure components and the poverty and inequality relationship in Malawi

... reducing poverty. The impact of economic growth on poverty depends on how the benefits of growth are distributed across the ...in poverty is larger for those countries where inequality is ... See full document

... a poverty line, z for each well being ...consumption expenditure, we use the poor poverty line which is 16165 Malawi Kwacha ...of Malawi (NSO) for ...health poverty line, ... See full document

... The conditional simulation method used in this study is an improvement over the simulation method used by Datt and Jollife (2005) and Mukherjee and Benson (2003) in that it accommodates the hierarchical nature of the ... See full document

... the poverty penalty can be compared conveniently across time periods, and ...a household level Laspeyres price ...average household as the ...as expenditure on a food item divided by quantity ... See full document

... of poverty and inequality is done using either house- hold income or household consumption ...most poverty and inequality studies in Africa we use household consumption ... See full document

... Second Malawi Integrated Household Survey ...of household welfare in ...things; household consumption expenditure, education lev- els of household members, the religion of ... See full document

... To ameliorate this situation, public spending as a health input, has a role to play. An increase in government spending on healthcare not only leads to healthy and productive population, but implies a larger work force, ... See full document

... Consumption Expenditure in Response to Increase in Per Capita Income: It has empirically been found that the structure of consumption expenditure undergoes a marked change when income rises beyond a certain ... See full document

... To estimate the poverty rate for small areas, an equation of expenditure or income is firstly estimated using a household survey, and then it is applied in a population census to predict[r] ... See full document

... 24,500 billion VND to 100,200 billion VND during the period 1995-2006. 3 However, the share of crop products in total export revenues was reduced from 32 to 14 per cent during this period. It is not clear whether the ... See full document

... of poverty and elasticity of poverty with respect to economic ...Using household consumption expenditure survey data from National Sample Survey (NSS) for the period 1958- 2006, they have ... See full document

... the household is negatively related with per capita food ...non-food expenditure more than the food expenditure because the urban economy gives more importance to non-food ...non-food ... See full document

... on household‟s poverty alleviation taking their consumption expenditure as a proxy for 240 households (120 participants and 120 non-participants) in Adama city of the Oromia National Regional State, ... See full document

... relative inequality measures are the ones which satisfy the ‘scale invariance’ property, the absolute measures satisfy the ‘translation invariance’ property as described in the literature on inequality ... See full document

... on poverty. The relative concept of poverty has enlightened us all, but the attempts to operationalise it in empirical research have had very limited impact on ... See full document

... divides poverty levels into three criteria: a) Not poor, if someone's per capita income per year <price of rice is 320 kg (<IDR 3,392,000), 2) Almost poor, if someone's per capita income per year <price ... See full document

... alleviating poverty in Ethiopia. The short run impact of poverty with respect to income inequality (Gini coefficient) is positive and significant which is according to most of the theorized ... See full document

... of household members that work (for persons older than 14), the number of working household members, the total annual working hours per capita, and total working hours per working household ...of ... See full document

... Transportation costs to the facility averaged N663.65 which represented 0.62% of the total direct cost. This showed that households in the study area paid relatively lower amounts of money to get to the health facility ... See full document

... national poverty rates there is a significant difference between the urban and rural poverty ...high poverty rates than the urban areas despite several governments‟ interventions to reduce ...in ... See full document