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The Economic Lives of the Poor
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper uses survey data from 13 countries to document the economic lives of the poor (those living on less than $2 dollar per day per capita at purchasing power parity) or the extremely poor (those living on less than $1 dollar per day). We describe their patterns of consumption and income...
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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program
Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship … poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory … consumption of richer households by 6.1 to 9.2 percent. We also find suggestive evidence that governance matters in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468658
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Political and Economic Institutions of China and Their Influences
Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
in the world in a few decades. Now China is returning to its historical past. To understand China’s development, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145429
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hard to document. We use occupational statistics from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We...
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...
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What Do We Know about Microfinance at Macro Glance?
Alimukhamedova, Nargiza; Hanousek, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
contrast we aim to identify the impact on whole economies (economic growth, and financial sector development and reductions in …
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Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Paraguay
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Flochel, Thomas; Straub, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra...
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Fragile States and Development Policy
Besley, Timothy J.; Persson, Torsten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
It is widely recognized that fragile states are key symptoms of under-development in many parts of the world. Such …, mainstream development economics has not dealt in any systematic way with such concerns and the implications for development … assistance. This paper puts forward a framework for analyzing fragile states and applies it to a variety of development policies …
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Growth, Selection and Appropriate Contracts
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Gancia, Gino A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-term contracts sacrificing managerial selection may be optimal at early stages of economic development and when access to information …
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
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