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Halving Poverty in South Africa: Growth and Distributional Aspects

Tregenna, Fiona - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government.s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

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Poverty, inequality, and prices in post-apartheid South Africa

Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Oosthuizen, Morne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This …

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Mitigating long-run health effects of drought: Evidence from South Africa

Dinkelman, Taryn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Drought is Africa’s primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in...

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Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments

Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly provided goods may become congested,...

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Siegrist, Johannes; Verde, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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Poverty and ethnicity among black South Africans

Gradin, Carlos - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

of the country.s population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and …

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Globalization, Production and Poverty

Jenkins, Rhys - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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Gender Dimensions to the Incidence of Tariff Liberalization

Daniels, Reza C. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

This paper evaluates a topic in the globalization and poverty debate that is often difficult to measure, namely the …

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What's the monetary value of distributive justice?

Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper develops a simple theoretical model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. We derive a formula that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal...

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It's All About Connections: Evidence on Network Formation

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The game-theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...

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