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Does Aid Work for the Poor?
McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; … - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the country level, which has looked mainly at the relationship between aid and...
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Poverty, Human Capital, Life-cycle and the Tax and Transfer Bases: The Role of Education for Development and International Competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Wirtschafts- und … - 2011
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …
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Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean adult heights and living standards. If adult height is set by the balance between food intake and...
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Measuring education inequality in the Philippines
Mesa, Eirene P. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 44 (2007) 2, pp. 33-70
of schooling and gross domestic regional product, but positively associated with the income Gini index, poverty incidence …, and poverty gap. …
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The Academic Consequences of Early Childhood Problem Behaviors
Turney, Kristin; McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
Non-cognitive skills in childhood and adolescence are associated with a host of outcomes in adulthood, including educational and occupational attainment. One explanation for these associations is that poor non-cognitive skills in early childhood interfere with the development of cognitive skills...
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Low-income housing in high-amenity areas: Long-run impacts on residential development
Thorsnes, Paul; Alexander, Robert; Kidson, David - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
Centre-left governments from the 1940s into the 1970s developed several large areas in the urban fringe of Dunedin, New Zealand for low-density, mostly single-family public rental housing. The public housing in these areas is now accessible, well endowed with natural amenities, and allocated to...
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The Relationship between Individual Labour Market Outcomes, Household Income and Expenditure, and Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand from 1983 to 2003
Stillman, Steven; Le, Trinh; Gibson, John; Hyslop, Dean; … - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012
, and inequality and poverty in New Zealand using detailed data from the 1983/84 – 2003/04 Household Economic Survey (HES … examine the determinants of the levels and changes in poverty in New Zealand using both expenditure and income data. We also … apply a newly developed methodology for combining income and expenditure data to produce poverty indicators. …
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Measuring performance: does the assessment depend on the poverty proxy?
Notten, Geranda - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
Poverty indicators often disagree about whether a person is poor or not. Yet, when it comes to assessing whether a … programme is successful in reaching the poor the dominant practice is to use an income poverty indicator. This paper …
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Material Deprivation in Selected EU Countries according to EU SILC Income Statistics
Stávková, Jana; Turčínková, Jana; Birciakova, Nada - Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova Univerzita v Brnĕ - 2012
The article focuses on issues of households at risk of poverty in a relative conception. Income poverty represents a … situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty bases on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883434
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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …
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