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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 … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty? : new projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Anna, Zuzy; Komarulzaman, Ahmad; … - 2023
In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014381180
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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries : the case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Checchi, Daniele; Cupák, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938214
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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The world's two new middles : growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case
Sumner, Andrew - 2016
poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453151
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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark … consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462536
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Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world : evidence from global microdata
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2021
This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions. Using a large collection of harmonized household surveys from developing countries, we measure long-term...
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Development and inequality : evidence from an endogenous switching regression without regime separation
Chen, Zhuo - In: Economics letters 96 (2007) 2, pp. 269-274
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Income inequality and economic development : evidence from the threshold regression model
Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasēs - In: Economics letters 69 (2000) 2, pp. 207-212
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Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countries
Dodlova, Marina; Giolbas, Anna - 2017
The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596960