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Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Reassessment of the Paradox

Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues misleading and led to the so-called 'Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox', i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty...

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Spatial Inequalities Explained: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...

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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …

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Gov-aargh-nance: "Even Criminals Need Law and Order"

Groot, Olaf J. de; Rablen, Matthew D.; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

We present a theoretical model postulating that the relationship between crime and governance is "hump-shaped" rather …. At the bottom end of the spectrum, therefore, both legal business and criminal gangs benefit from improved governance …, especially when this is delivered informally. With significant improvements in formal governance criminal activities decline. We …

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Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique

Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings...

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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...

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Income Satisfaction Inequality and Its Causes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Modelling Low Income Transitions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...

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Decomposing Permanent and Transitory Poverty

Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine neue Berechnungsweise des Anteils permanenter Armut an der gesamten vorhandenen Armut vorgestellt. Es wird gezeigt, dass der weithin genutzte Shorrocks-Index zur Zerlegung von permanenter und transitorischer Ungleichheit auch zur Beschreibung von Armut...

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