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Making the poor pay for public goods via microfinance : economic and political pitfalls in the case of water and sanitation

Mader, Philip - 2011

This paper critically assesses microfinance’s expansion into the provision of public goods. It focuses on the problem of public goods and collective action and refers to the specific example of water and sanitation. The microfinancing of water and sanitation is a private business model which...

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Quality of government and the relationship between natural disasters and child poverty : a comparative analysis

Daoud, Adel; Halleröd, Björn; Guha Sapir, Debarati - 2015

dimensions of severe child poverty in 67 middle- and low-income countries. It also analyzes how certain institutional conditions …, namely the quality of government (QoG), have moderating effects on the relationship between disasters and child poverty. Two … main hypotheses are tested. The first is that disasters do have an adverse average effect on severe poverty. The second is …

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What growth strategies do citizens want? : evidence from a new survey

Baccaro, Lucio; Bremer, Björn; Neimanns, Erik - 2023

While research on the economic characteristics of growth models across countries is now extensive, research on the … politics of growth models is still in its infancy, even though governments routinely pursue different strategies to generate … growth. In particular, we lack evidence on (1) whether citizens have coherent preferences towards growth strategies, (2) what …

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Ein Bündnis für die nachhaltige Finanzierung der Sozialversicherungssysteme : Interessenvermittlung in der bundesdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt- und Rentenpolitik

Trampusch, Christine - 2003

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Ein Bündnis für die nachhaltige Finanzierung der Sozialversicherungssysteme : Interessenvermittlung in der bundesdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt- und Rentenpolitik

Trampusch, Christine - 2003

Aus einer Betrachtung des historischen Entwicklungsweges der Verschiebebahnhofpolitik zwischen der Rentenversicherung der Arbeiter und Angestellten, der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit und dem Bundeshaushalt für den Zeitraum von 1964 bis 2000 schlussfolgert der Beitrag, dass jegliche Strukturreform,...

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Has the "external constraint" contributed to Italy's stagnation? : a critical event analysis

Baccaro, Lucio; D'Antoni, Massimo - 2020

Has the strategy of the "external constraint" (voluntarily limiting the country's policy-making discretion by tying it to the European mast) contributed to Italy's stagnation over the past twenty-five years? The existing literature is divided on this question. The dominant interpretation is that...

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Operationalizing growth models

Baccaro, Lucio; Hadziabdic, Sinisa - 2022

We present a new methodology for operationalizing growth models based on import-adjusted demand components. Applying … the methodology to the latest release of OECD Input-Output Tables, we calculate the growth contributions of consumption … identify the respective growth models. We find that most countries are export-led or domestic demand-led and that other forms …

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