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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...
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private capital markets can be accessed and thus official development assistance is becoming of lesser importance over time as …
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Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and … inequality is taken seriously, a refocus of development efforts is necessary, combining a greater share of development assistance …
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The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
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Most Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year …-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South …. But what if all countries made a universal development commitment, meaning a scaled contribution? We propose a new …
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The state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes. This paper discusses the advances in our understanding of the role of the state in the developmental process over the past thirty years, and the contribution to those advances played by changes in economics, changes...
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...
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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …
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