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corruption of their subordinates as a byproduct of their efforts to implement their preferences using tax revenue. Within this …
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This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …
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countries on poverty and average incomes in poor countries. We find no support in the cross-country analysis for the claim that … OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to …
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Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …
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Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …
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Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review …
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I examine the role of political instability as a potential explanation for the lack of capital flows from rich countries to poor countries (i.e. the `Lucas Paradox'). Using panel data from 1984 to 2014, I document the following: (i) developed countries exhibit larger inflows of foreign direct...
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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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less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid. On the contrary, according to some measures of corruption, more corrupt … governments receive more aid. Also, we could not find any evidence that an increase in foreign aid reduces corruption. In summary …
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modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …
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