Knowing, when you don't know
Subtitle: using microsimulation models to assess the poverty and distributional impacts of macroeconomic shocks
By: edited by Ambar Narayan, Carolina Sanchez-Peramo
Contributors: Sánchez-Páramo, Carolina
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821389812; 9780821389546
Subjects: Mathematical models; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Poverty; Income distribution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgement; title: Foreword; title: Assessing the poverty and distributional impacts of the financial crisis with microsimulations : an overview of country studies / Bilal Habib, Ambar Narayan, Sergio Olivieri and Carolina Sanchez-Paramo; title: On economy-wide shocks, models, and politics / Michael Walton; title: The distributional consequences of the economic and financial crisis of 2008-09 : a comment / Danny Leipziger; title: Stress testing for the poverty impacts of the next crisis / Ravi Kanbur.