Knowing, when you do not know : simulating the poverty and distributional impacts of an economic crisis /

Economists have long sought to predict how macroeconomic shocks willaffect individual welfare. Macroeconomic data and forecasts are easily available when crises strike. But policy action requires not onlyunderstanding the magnitude of a macro shock, but also identifying which households or individua...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: World Bank
Other Authors: Narayan, Ambar, Sánchez-Páramo, Carolina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2012.
Series:World Bank studies.
Subjects:
2008-2009
Poverty > Mathematical models.
Income distribution > Mathematical models.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Pauvreté > Modèles mathématiques.
Revenu > Répartition > Modèles mathématiques.
Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Income distribution > Mathematical models
Poverty > Mathematical models
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Assessing the poverty and distributional impacts of the financial crisis with microsimulations : an overview of country studies / Bilal Habib [and others]
  • On economy-wide shocks, models, and politics / Michael Walton
  • The distributional consequences of the economic and financial crisis of 2008-09 : a comment / Danny Leipziger
  • Stress testing for the poverty impacts of the next crisis / Ravi Kanbur.

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