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Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 168 (2023), pp. 1-8

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Health and knowledge externalities : implications for growth and public policy

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - In: Human capital and economic growth : the impact of …, (pp. 251-293). 2019

Interactions between knowledge and health are studied in a three-period overlapping generations model with health … rearing. Growth dynamics depend in important ways on the externalities associated with knowledge and health. Depending on the … strength of these externalities, increases in government spending on education or health (financed by a cut in unproductive …

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Do poorer countries have less capacity for redistribution?

Ravallion, Martin - In: Journal of globalization and development 1 (2010) 2, pp. 1-29

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Aid volatility, human capital, and growth

Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Bayraktar, Nihal - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 14 (2020) 3, pp. 401-448

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Lifting the floor? : economic development, social protection and the developing World's poorest

Margitic, Juan; Ravallion, Martin - In: Journal of development economics 139 (2019), pp. 97-108

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Chapter 41 Poverty and policy

Lipton, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 3, part B, (pp. 2551-2657). 1995

The structure, efficiency, and growth of production affect (and are affected by) the distribution of consumption. Poverty analysis has three tasks: (1) to define and describe poverty, (2) to understand its causes, and (3) to inform policy. This chapter outlines history of economic thought on...

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A Monetary Model of the Parallel Market for Foreign Exchange

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) September, pp. 4-18

Develops and tests a monetary model of the parallel market for foreign exchange which incorporates forward-looking expectations and currency substitution features. Econometric results using quarterly data for a group of 12 developing countries show that changes in official exchange rates and...

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