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This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of … globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the … evidence suggests that the poor are more likely to share in the gains from globalization when there are complementary policies …
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Globalization radically changes income distribution and triggers intense international tax competition. Therefore …, globalization entails an extensive restructuring of the welfare state. We analyze a parsimonious model of an open economy, in its … the interactions between taxation, provision of social benefits, and globalization. We demonstrate how these interactions …
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The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines is augmented by the idea of normative functionings, the cost of which varies across countries. In this light, current absolute measures are seen to ignore important social...
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half. How much of that improvement is because of-or in spite of-globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount … loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization's perils and promises, economists have largely remained … finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and pove …
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Conservation programs in low-income countries often have dual goals of protecting the environment and reducing poverty. This article discusses the tension between these two goals in payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs. Participants who undertake a pro-environment behavior receive a...
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This paper investigates the impact of rich-country agricultural support on the poor. Using non-parametric analysis we establish that the majority of poor countries are consistently net importers of food products that are heavily supported by OECD governments. Using a cross-country regression...
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Critics of Head Start contend that many programs spend too much money on programs extraneous to education. On the other hand, Head Start advocates argue that severely disadvantaged children need a broad range of services. Given the available evidence, it has been impossible to assess the...
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Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left-behind, yet this is a widespread concern among policy makers and citizens. The paper assesses whether public spending on social protection benefits the poorest and hence lifts the...
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Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public expenditure? To explore this question, this paper...
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