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Health and wealth on the roller-voaster : Ireland, 2003 - 2011

Madden, David - 2013

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

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Health and income poverty in Ireland, 2003 - 2006

Madden, David - 2008

Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates … income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating … Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and bi-dimensional poverty indices are calculated for Ireland for the years …

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Are the effects of height on well-being a tall tale?

Denny, Kevin - 2015

Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good economic outcomes such as earnings. A smaller number have argued for an association with well-being. In this paper, cross-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether...

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A Quality of Growth Index for Developing Countries : A Proposal

Mlachila, Montfort - 2014

This paper proposes a new quality of growth index (QGI) for developing countries. The index encompasses both the intrinsic nature and social dimensions of growth, and is computed for over 90 countries for the period 1990-2011. The approach is premised on the fact that not all growth is created...

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Mind the gap : revisiting the concentration index for overweight

Madden, David - 2017

Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices for the incidence of these conditions. However this analysis ignores the severity of the conditions, in particular whether there is a gradient to how far are people above the...

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Tax Composition and Growth : A Broad Cross-Country Perspective

Acosta Ormaechea, Santiago LE - 2012

We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the...

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Structural Reforms, IMF Programs and Capacity Building : An Empirical Investigation

Arezki, Rabah - 2012

This paper investigates the role that International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and capacity building play in fostering structural reforms. To do so, we exploit two novel datasets on IMF capacity building and structural reforms available for over one hundred IMF member countries over the period...

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Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World : Evidence from a New Dataset

Arezki, Rabah - 2012

The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted from CVs for over 130,000 mid to senior level officials from mainly central banks and ministries...

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How Buoyant is the Tax System? New Evidence from a Large Heterogeneous Panel

Dudine, Paolo - 2017

In this paper we provide short- and long-run tax buoyancy estimates for 107 countries (distributed between advanced, emerging and low-income) for the period 1980-2014. By means of Fully-Modified OLS and (Pooled) Mean Group estimators, we find that: i) for advanced economies both long-run and...

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Banks in the Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model

Andrle, Michal - 2015

The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF) is a multi-region DSGE model developed by the Economic Modeling Division of the IMF for policy and scenario analysis. This paper compares two versions of GIMF, GIMF with a conventional financial accelerator, where bank balance sheets do not...

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