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Poverty-food security nexus : evidence from a survey of urban slum dwellers in Kolkata
Maitra, Chandana; Prasada Rao, D. S. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 72 (2015), pp. 308-325
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413078
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Inequality in life and death
Eichenbaum, Martin S.; Rebelo, Sérgio; Trabandt, Mathias - In: IMF economic review 70 (2022) 1, pp. 68-104
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Household Behaviour, Prices, and Welfare : A Collection of Essays Including Selected Empirical Studies
Ray, Ranjan - 2018
in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book shows the shift in the literature on prices from being an … theory-based analysis of household behavior. It also includes recent developments in the poverty measurement literature …, documenting the shift from the exclusively money metric and unidimensional poverty measures to multidimensional poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396947
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth : a cross-country analysis
Khawar, Mariam (contributor) - In: Global economy journal : GEJ 5 (2005) 3
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003281048
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Foreign capital flows and the efficiency of the HDI dimensions
Arcelus, Francisco J. (contributor);  … - In: Global economy journal : GEJ 5 (2005) 3
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003281080
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What Have We Learned from the Enterprise Surveys regarding Access to Credit by SMEs?
Kuntchev, Veselin - 2013
Using a unique firm level data set-the Enterprise Surveys-this paper develops a new measure of credit-constrained status for firms using hard data instead of perceptions data. The paper classifies firms into four ordinal categories: Not Credit Constrained, Maybe Credit Constrained, Partially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395946
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GLS Estimation and Empirical Bayes Prediction for Linear Mixed Models with Heteroskedasticity and Sampling Weights : A Background Study for the POVMAP Project
van der Weide, Roy - 2014
prediction for linear mixed models with sampling weights. The objective is to incorporate these results into the poverty mapping … custom-made poverty mapping software developed by the World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396309
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Urbanization and Housing Investment
Dasgupta, Basab - 2014
This paper provides the first systematic empirical assessment of the pace at which housing investment has responded to rising demand from urbanization. The assessment used National Accounts Statistics to build a data set of residential housing investment for more than 90 countries. The data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396391
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Fiscal constitutions : an empirical assessment
Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw - 2015
Fiscal constitutions comprise the set of rules and frameworks guiding fiscal policy that are enshrined in a country’s fundamental laws. This paper compares the fiscal constitutions of 15 federal countries by empirically assessing five building blocks: 1) the power of sub-national governments...
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An exploration of the relationship between police presence, crime, and business in developing countries
Islam, Asif - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431501