Poverty trends in Turkey

Șeker, Sirma Demir and Jenkins, Stephen P. (2015) Poverty trends in Turkey. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 13 (3). pp. 401-424. ISSN 1569-1721

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Abstract

This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2012 and the factors accounting for them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between 2008 and 2012. Changes in relative poverty were negligible throughout. Using decomposition methods, we argue that the declines in the absolute poverty rate are largely accounted for by changes in the rate of economic growth rather than by distributional changes or changes in population composition.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://link.springer.com/journal/10888
Additional Information:	© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York
Library of Congress subject classification:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Journal of Economic Literature Classification System:	C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General > C12 - Hypothesis Testing D - Microeconomics > D3 - Distribution > D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare and Poverty > I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Sets:	Departments > Social Policy Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2015 09:26
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/61012/

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