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Financial dollarization and central bank credibility
Cowan, Kevin - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523353
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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data
Bourguignon, François - 2004
larger effort in the vice presidency to improve measurement of vulnerability to poverty"--World Bank web site …
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Linking representative household models with household surveys for poverty analysis : a comparison of alternative methodologies
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2004
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On the utility consistency of poverty lines
Lokshin, Michael - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523280
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Expanding the measure of wealth : indicators of environmentally sustainable development
1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010525419
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Democracy, credibility, and clientelism
Keefer, Philip - 2005
. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways. First, they can build reputations. This requires that they fulfill … commitments to their clients. Endogenizing credibility in this way, the authors find that targeted transfers and corruption are …-electoral promises. They also argue that in the absence of political credibility, political reliance on patrons enhances welfare in the …
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Measuring health as a component of living standards
Ho, Teresa J. - 1982
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Measuring skilled migration rates : the case of small states
Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
"Recent changes in information and communication technologies have contributed to a dramatic increase in the degree of integration and interdependency of countries, markets, and people. Against this background, one aspect of particular concern for small states is the international movement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394121
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On defining and measuring the informal sector
Arabsheibani, G. Reza - 2006
"A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. In this paper the authors investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522194
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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...
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