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substantial progress along the SDGs by 2030. We estimate the additional spending needed in critical areas of human capital (health …
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like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … hierarchical ordered probit (HOPIT) modeling, we show that a significant and substantial health disadvantage of the poor emerges … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …
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pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed …
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swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …
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linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health … to higher economic growth. The paper also finds that other policy interventions, such as improving governance, reducing …
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-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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