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This paper reviews the experience of a heterogeneous group of developing countries in maintaining macroeconomic stability in the face of heavy capital flows.
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The partial effect of nominal exchange rate volatility on exports from each EMU member to the rest of the EMU is estimated on annual data for 1967-97, using modern time-series methods.
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The emergence of a select group of developing countries as destinations for private portfolio investments in the 1990s (and the subsequent peso crisis in Mexico in 1994) has rekindled the old issues about the responsabilities and capacities public authorities have with regard to managing the...
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city’s sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …
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approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …
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insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article specifies government.s stated target of halving...
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land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …
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the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …
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