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Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions : Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction—one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties to...

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Alleviating Global Poverty : Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth

Pritchett, Lant - 2018

Decades of programmatic experimentation by development NGOs combined with the latest empirical techniques for estimating program impact have shown that a well-designed, well-implemented, multi-faceted intervention can in fact have an apparently sustained impact on the incomes of the poor...

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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2010

Rich countries have made efforts for half a century to help people in poor countries catch up to rich-country standards of living. Those efforts have included giving foreign aid, encouraging overseas investment, dismantling trade barriers, and spreading ideas and institutions. That is, their...

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External Advisors and Privatization in Transition Economies

Nellis, John - 2007

This paper analyzes privatization and enterprise reform of three major countries in the transition region; Poland …, Czechoslovakia (subsequently the Czech Republic), and the Soviet Union (subsequently Russia). For each, it discusses the prevailing … Czech Republic and Russia, and others in the region, are better off after the flawed privatizations they carried out than …

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