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On weighting the components of the Human Development Index: A statistical justification
Nguefack-Tsague, Georges; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2010
The Human Development Index (HDI) published in the Human Development Report (HDR) of the United Nations Development Program is calculated as a simple average of the Life Expectancy Index (LEI), the Education Index (EI) and the Gross Domestic Product Index (GDPI). This paper provides statistical...
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Buying Votes and International Organizations
Dreher, Axel; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2011
This study explores a basic idea in political economy: Trading money for political influence. Our focus is at the level of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over another. In particular, we consider the lending...
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Does membership on the UN Security Council influence IMF conditionality?
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010
We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...
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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving
Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - 2013
Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent … donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329999
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Of donor coordination, free-riding, darlings, and orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving
Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country in that year. We thereby want to assess to … what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487859
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UNDP's gender-related measures: Current problems and proposals for fixing them
Klasen, Stephan - 2017
In contrast to UNDP's wildly successful Human Development Index (HDI), UNDP's gender-related indices have had a rather rocky history. To this day, the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) has not produced a measure that has met the requirements of policy-makers, academics and development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636815
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A dissimilarity-adjusted index of ethnic diversity: Measurement and implications for findings on conflict, growth and trade
Kolo, Philipp - 2016
Existing indices of ethnic diversity are generally based on pre-defined groups, disregarding the (dis)similarities between them. This paper proposes an index that includes the dissimilarity in language, ethno-racial characteristcs and religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422513
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When can micro properties be used to predict aggregate demand?
Halvorsen, Bente - 2006
Heterogeneity in consumer behaviour creates differences in demand responses, which may create problems with aggregation across consumers. If aggregation problems exist, results from estimation based on aggregate data may prove difficult to interpret. Using estimation results from micro data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968222
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A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversi¯cation strategy, es- pecially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329903
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Identifying synergies and complementarities between MDGs: Results from cluster analysis
Bue, Maria Carmela Lo; Klasen, Stephan - 2012
The MDGs are interlinked: acceleration in one goal is likely to speed up progress in others. Nevertheless, these synergies are not always visible, and may differ across countries. Using bivariate cluster analysis, this paper investigates whether distinct groups of developing countries can be...
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