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The impact of gender inequality in education and employment on economic growth in developing Countries : updates and extensions

Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using most recent data and investigating a long time period (1960-2000), we update the results of...

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In search of the holy grail : how to achieve pro-poor growth?

Klasen, Stephan - 2003

Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite being widely used, the term is not well-defined nor has there been a clear policy document that would summarize the determinants and policy implications of pro poor growth. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518190

The aid-income link revisited : how plausible and robust are the results?

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2014

This study provides a re-examination of the aid-income link based on a panel data set which is downloadable at the Canadian Journal of Economics 45(1), 2012 issue. Longer time series data are available for a group of 58 countries and run from 1960 to 2007. In particular, the study aims at...

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Macroeconomic policy and pro-poor growth in Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

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Determinants of the growth semi-elasticity of poverty reduction

Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2008

In this paper we examine the mathematical relationship between growth and distributional change on absolute (i.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually superior and more policy-relevant measure than the...

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Pro-poor growth and gender inequality

Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

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In search for a long-run relationship between aid and growth : pitfalls and findings

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

the world. It can be shown that by not controlling for autocorrelation, one erroneously attributes to aid a larger …

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In search of FDI-led growth in developing countries

Herzer, Dierk (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor); … - 2006

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Growth, inequality, and well-being : intertemporal and global comparisons

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

. Our global analysis covering ca. 81 per cent of the world s population demonstrates that global well-being is at least 50 … per cent smaller than world per capita income if the unequal income distribution is also factored in. Conversely, growth … in world well-being has been larger than world income growth between 1970-1998. Since the inclusion of inequality has an …

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