Tag: Angus Deaton
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How Nobel winner’s work links international aid and poverty
AP: How Nobel winner's work links international aid and poverty Angus Deaton has dug into obscure data to explore a range of problems: The scope of poverty in India. How poor countries treat young girls. The link between income inequality and economic growth. The Princeton University economist's research has raised doubts about sweeping solutions to…
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Measuring Global Poverty
Aid Watch: Don’t Cite Global Numbers Unless You Know They’re Trustworthy (They Usually Aren’t) Precisely 1.419 billion live in extreme poverty in our world today. Oh, and it’s equally plausible that precisely 0.874 billion live in extreme poverty. Or maybe it’s 1.7517 billion. Most development people confidently cite global statistics without knowing what they are…
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Poor and happy?
Dani Rodrik's weblog: Poor and happy? In economics we think that happiness increases with lifetime wealth, albeit at a decreasing rate. But recent research on happiness fails to show a steep gradient between incomes and self-reported life satisfaction. But this work has typically focused on rich countries. In a recent paper, Angus Deaton uses Gallup…