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When average incomes rise, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This holds across regions, periods, income levels, and growth rates. But relatively little is known about the broad forces that account for the variations across countries and across time in the...
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Poverty in the developing world will decline by roughly half by 2015 if current growth trends and policies persist. But … to how the world could cut poverty in half in every major region.The fact that aid increases the benefits of reform … several recent case studies of low-income reformers).Collier and Dollar find that the world is not operating on the efficiency …
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world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend 2: The number of poor people in the world has … world population living on less than $1 a day was cut in half since 1981. Trend 3: Global inequality (among citizens of the … world) has declined - modestly - reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend 4: There is no general trend …
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Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, Dollar, Hallward-Driemeier, and Mengistae investigate the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large,...
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Burnside and Dollar revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular...
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The authors revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular in the...
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Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common...
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developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among … citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is …
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extremely poor people in the world has declined significantly. The share of people in developing economies living on less than …
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