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Does financial liberalisation improve access to investment finance in developing countries?

O’Toole, Conor M. - 2012

This paper considers the effect of financial liberalisation on access to investment finance using firm level data covering 57 developing and transition countries. An index is presented which measures financial market liberalisation along the following policy dimensions: directed lending, credit...

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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?

Sumner, Andrew - 2013

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...

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Another look at foreign aid

Ranis, Gustav - 2013

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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Taxation and inequality in developing countries : lessons from the recent experience of Latin America

Martorano, Bruno - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries … taxes promoted the progressivity of the tax system and contributed to the reduction of inequality. Yet, the effectiveness of …

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The world's two new middles : growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case

Sumner, Andrew - 2016

This paper discusses the emergence of two new middles since the Cold War, namely middle-income countries and people living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that although there has been substantial economic growth,...

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The state, the market, and development

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2016

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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The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality

Alavuotunki, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2015

revenue, others claim that it is also a regressive tax, contributing to increased inequality within the developing world … first estimates on its consequences on inequality at the macro level. The results from instrumental variable estimations … has not led to increased inequality, suggesting that the move to the VAT has not undermined equitable development. …

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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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Inequality of opportunity during the great recession in Uganda

Brunori, Paolo; Palmisanoy, Flaviana; Peraginez, Vito - 2015

and infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. We show that despite a reduction in … the real value of the household consumption and a surge in outcome inequality between 2009/10 and 2010/11, the consumption … dynamic appears to alleviate inequality of opportunity in Uganda. …

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COVID-19 : macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world

Addison, Tony; Sen, Kunal; Tarp, Finn - 2020

concludes that the pandemic could reinforce the existing trend towards higher social inequality. …

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