Poverty decomposition by regression: An application to Tanzania

Tomoki Fujii

No e097, Working Papers from Tokyo Center for Economic Research

Abstract: We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to ascribe the observed change in poverty to various covariates of interest collected at a disaggregate level. This method is applied to two datasets from Tanzania to assess, among others, the short- and long-term impacts of infrastructure and market access on poverty

Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2015-09
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