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Population, Population Density, and Technological Change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: Theory and empirical evidence

Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009

the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …

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Growth, Inequality and Well-Being: Comparisons across Space and Time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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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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Gender-Related Indicators of Well-Being

Klasen, Stephan - 2004

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involved a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...

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Armutsreduzierung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung

Klasen, Stephan - 2006

In diesem Beitrag werden theoretische und empirische Zusammenhänge zwischen Globalisierung und absoluter Armut in Entwicklungsländern beleuchtet. Es wird gezeigt, dass die zunehmende Handelsintegration die Chancen für verbesserte Armutsreduktion eröffnet und viele Entwicklungsländer davon...

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Perspectives on the world income distribution: beyond twin peaks towards welfare conclusions

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

This paper contributes towards the growing debate concerning the world distribution of in- come and its evolution over …

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Income distribution dynamics and pro-poor growth in the world from 1970 to 2003

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

We estimate and analyze the global income distribution from national log-normal income distributions for the years 1970 to 2003, as well as the income distribution of seven regional subsamples. From these distributions we obtain measures for global and regional inequality and poverty, and find...

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Twin peaks or three components?: analyzing the world's cross-country distribution of income

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

In this paper we analyze the world´s cross-national distribution of income and its evolution from 1970 to 2003. We …

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The effect of trade facilitation on sectoral trade

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Márquez-Ramos, Laura - 2007

This paper aims to analyse the effect of trade facilitation on sectoral trade flows. We use data from the World Bank …

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