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Poverty, inequality and migration in Latin America

Klasen, Stephan (ed.); Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas (ed.) - Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America / … - 2008 - 1. Aufl.

The causes and consequences of high inequality in incomes, assets, and many aspects of well-being in Latin America have recently (re-)emerged as a central research and policy issue. However, many open questions remain that will be dealt with in the contributions to this volume. First, the...

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Poverty, inequality and migration in Latin America

Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2008 - 1. Aufl.

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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Growth, income distribution, and well-being : comparisons across space and time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Gender-related indicators of well-being

Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A time to throw stones, a time to reap : how long does it take for democratic transitions to improve institutional outcomes?

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Sekkat, Khalid - 2016

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Do democratic transitions attract foreign investors and how fast?

Lacroix, Jean; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Sekkat, Khalid - 2017

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Measuring poverty

Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2018

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