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Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … the global count, we find 12.7 percent of the world's population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty …
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), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …
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Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …
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We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows...
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In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T. Kearney...
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...
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The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...
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The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or complement each other -exhibiting either a negative or positive relationship. This paper -using a structural equation model with two latent variables - extracts information on...
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IV estimation methods yield smaller coefficients of net migration in growth regressions, while the opposite holds for …
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"Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
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