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When Pro-Poor Microcredit Institutions Favor Richer Borrowers - A Moral Hazard Story
Biancini, Sara; Venet, Baptiste; Ettinger, David - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and...
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A preference-based theory unifying monetary and non-monetary poverty measurement
Decerf, Benoit - In: Journal of public economics 222 (2023), pp. 1-17
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Productivity in multiple output public service : a quadratic frontier function and Malmquist index approach
Bjurek, Hans - In: Journal of public economics 56 (1995) 3, pp. 447-460
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The distributional impact of public services when needs differ
Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep; Langørgen, Audun; … - In: Journal of public economics 94 (2010) 9/10, pp. 549-562
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Economic Inequality and COVID-19 Death Rates in the First Wave, a Cross-Country Analysis
Davies, James B. - 2021
poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …
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Global poverty measurement when relative income matters
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - In: Journal of public economics 177 (2019), pp. 1-13
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Why not consider that being absolutely poor is worse than being only relatively poor?
Decerf, Benoit - In: Journal of public economics 152 (2017), pp. 79-92
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A rising tide lifts all homes? : housing consumption trends for low-income households since the 1980s
Hembre, Erik; Collins, J. Michael; Wylde, Samuel - In: Journal of public economics 233 (2024), pp. 1-10
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Decentralizing antipoverty program delivery in developing countries
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mookherjee, Dilip - In: Journal of public economics 89 (2005) 4, pp. 675-704
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Discontinuous losses from poverty, generalized P alpha measures, and optimal transfers to the poor
Bourguignon, François - In: Journal of public economics 63 (1997) 2, pp. 155-175
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