Multidimensional Assessment of Child Welfare for Tanzania

TY - CHAP

T1 - Multidimensional Assessment of Child Welfare for Tanzania

AU - Arndt, Channing

AU - Leyaro, Vincent

AU - Mahrt, Kristi

AU - Tarp, Finn

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Identifying trends in living standards in Tanzania has been a subject of considerable interest. Analysis of a household budget survey conducted in 2007 revealed consumption poverty rates approximately similar to the rates calculated from a comparable survey conducted in 2001. This stagnation in consumption poverty occurred despite relatively high published rates of economic growth over the same period and little change in measured inequality. Price inflation over the same period as measured by the household budget survey also differed drastically from inflation rates derived from the published consumer price index (CPI) and the GDP deflator. The growth–poverty–inequality conundrum alongside the wide divergences in measured inflation provoked a great deal of analysis. More recently in 2015, the World Bank published a poverty assessment based on a household budget survey conducted in 2011/12 and found a reduction in consumption poverty of about six percentage points.

AB - Identifying trends in living standards in Tanzania has been a subject of considerable interest. Analysis of a household budget survey conducted in 2007 revealed consumption poverty rates approximately similar to the rates calculated from a comparable survey conducted in 2001. This stagnation in consumption poverty occurred despite relatively high published rates of economic growth over the same period and little change in measured inequality. Price inflation over the same period as measured by the household budget survey also differed drastically from inflation rates derived from the published consumer price index (CPI) and the GDP deflator. The growth–poverty–inequality conundrum alongside the wide divergences in measured inflation provoked a great deal of analysis. More recently in 2015, the World Bank published a poverty assessment based on a household budget survey conducted in 2011/12 and found a reduction in consumption poverty of about six percentage points.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - household budget surveys

KW - poverty rates

KW - inflation rates

KW - growth–poverty–inequality conundrum

KW - Tanzania

U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744801.003.0014

DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744801.003.0014

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9780198744801

SP - 215

EP - 241

BT - Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -