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The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting diarrheal disease, which kills 2 million children annually. There is...
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This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...
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This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …
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countries on poverty and average incomes in poor countries. We find no support in the cross-country analysis for the claim that … OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to …
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Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …
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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 … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …
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Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review …
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modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …
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focusing on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards sustainability,' which stresses …
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The Clean Water Act (CWA) significantly improved surface water quality, but at a cost exceeding the estimated benefits. We quantify the effect of the CWA on a direct measure of health and incorporate health benefits into a cost-benefit analysis. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we...
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