Short-lived shocks with long-lived impacts?: household income dynamics in a transition economy / Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion

In theory it is possible that a vulnerable household will never recover from a sufficiently large but short-lived shock to its income, which could explain the persistent poverty that has emerged in many transition economies. But this study for Hungary shows that, in general, households bounce back f...

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1. Verfasser: Lokshin, Michael (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC World Bank, Development Research Group, Poverty and Human Resources [2000]
Schriftenreihe:Policy research working paper 2459
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Zusammenfassung:In theory it is possible that a vulnerable household will never recover from a sufficiently large but short-lived shock to its income, which could explain the persistent poverty that has emerged in many transition economies. But this study for Hungary shows that, in general, households bounce back from transient shocks, although not rapidly
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