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Inequality, technology and the social contract
Bénabou, Roland - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013424518
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Boats and tides and "trickle down" theories : what economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665370
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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2012
This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515911
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Income inequality, shadow economy and environmental degradation in Africa : quantile regression via moment’s approach
Dada, James Temitope; Ajide, Folorunsho M.; Arnaut, Marina - In: International journal of development issues 22 (2023) 2, pp. 214-240
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Natural resource rents, inequality, and terrorism in Africa
Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Alimi, Olorunfemi Yasiru - In: Defence and peace economics 33 (2022) 6, pp. 712-730
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Handbook of research on sustainable development and governance strategies for economic growth in Africa
Alemu, Kassa Teshager; Alebachew, Mulunesh Abebe - 2018
development and governance strategies determine economic growth in Africa. It also explores the ability of countries to achieve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012393071
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Playing to strength : growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid; Kumar, Praveen - 2018
economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a … growth strategy with the greatest potential for small, landlocked economies in East Africa. The paper uses Malawi, Rwanda …. Undoubtedly, there are obstacles to transferring the advanced technologies wholesale to East Africa, but their eventual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903120
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Explaining Ethiopia's growth acceleration : the role of infrastructure and macroeconomic policy
Moller, Lars Christian; Wacker, Konstantin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 96 (2017), pp. 198-215
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762933
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A Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa
Brown, Caitlin - 2016
Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246565
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A poor means test? : econometric targeting in Africa
Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571273