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Sources of Welfare Disparities across and within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the 2002-03 Household Budget Survey

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Katayama, Roy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. This paper uses Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally...

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Migration and Education Decisions in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework

Dessus, Sebastien; Nahas, Charbel - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

With growing international skilled labor mobility, education and migration decisions have become increasingly inter …, savings, or the cost of education. The authors develop a generic dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the education … migrant households, low dependency ratios in source countries, increasing returns to scale in the education sector …

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The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"

Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...

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Towards Open Knowledge : The State of World Bank Knowledge Services

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

This first World Bank Knowledge Report launches what is intended as a series of World Bank Knowledge Reports. Although knowledge is a fundamental to the Bank s overall mission, and informs all of the Bank s development activities, it has not received the same degree of attention from management...

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