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Social Protection and Economic Development : Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?

Ravallion, Martin - 2018

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left-behind, yet this is a widespread concern among policy makers and citizens. The paper assesses whether public spending on social protection benefits the poorest and hence lifts the...

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Can the West Save Africa?

Easterly, William - 2021

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...

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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam … development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …

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The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam

Dell, Melissa - 2017

This study examines how the historical state conditions long-run development, using Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern … Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong centralized state in which the village was the fundamental administrative unit …. Southern Vietnam was a peripheral tributary of the Khmer (Cambodian) Empire, which followed a patron-client model with weaker …

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Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development

McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - 2023

across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …

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Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Medina, Carlos; … - 2023

Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Acción, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...

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Inside the War on Poverty : The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

Almond, Douglas - 2010

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to the FSP...

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Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?

McKinnish, Terra - 2010

This paper uses confidential Census data, specifically the 1990 and 2000 Census Long Form data, to study the demographic processes underlying the gentrification of low-income urban neighborhoods during the 1990's. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis is conducted at the more refined...

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Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2010

In this paper, we examine whether expanded access to sought-after schools can improve academic achievement. The setting we study is the quot;open enrollmentquot; system in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). We use lottery data to avoid the critical issue of non-random selection of students into...

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Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

Balat, Jorge F. - 2010

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We...

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