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Poverty traps and nonlinear income dynamics with measurement error and individual heterogeneity
Antman, Francisca - 2005
"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can...
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Kosovo Country Economic Memorandum, November 2021 : Enhancing Human Capital by Improving Education
World Bank - 2021
This note assesses pre-university education in Kosovo and identifies policies that can improve education quality and … equity. There is a substantial need for improvement to the foundations of the education system, especially in terms of …, making it a policy to invest in human capital through education must be a priority. The low levels of foundational literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255313
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Mauritania Human Capital Review
World Bank - 2024
et des résultats de l’éducation. Malgré lesinitiatives positives de la Mauritanie, la richesse encapital humain par …’être s’ils avaient bénéficiéd'une éducation complète et d’une santé optimale.Augmenter la productivité des mauritaniens …
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Global redistribution of income
Bourguignon, François - 2006
"The actual distribution of world income across countries is extremely unequal, much higher than the within country inequality faced by most countries. The question studied in this paper is: How do international policies on aid, trade, and factor movements affect the international distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522101
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Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
"It is acknowledged that the lack of any systematic link between growth and income inequality does not necessarily mean that economic growth is not accompanied by major changes in the underlying income distribution. The author uses a method devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522640
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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers
Halac, Marina - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523264
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Human capital and earnings inequality in Brazil, 1988-98 : / quantile regression evidence
Arabsheibani, G. R. - 2003
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Inside inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : facts and perceptions across people, time, and space
Verme, Paolo - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394002
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Global income distribution and poverty in the absence of agricultural distortions
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2009
"This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agriculture trade distortions using a newly developed dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that liberalization of agriculture and food could increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394143
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The impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Ghana
Adams, Richard H. Jr - 2008
"This paper uses a new, 2005/06 nationally-representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control for selection and endogeneity, it uses a two-stage...
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