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Global Growth and Distribution : Are China and India Reshaping the World?

Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012

Over the past 20 years, aggregate measures of global inequality have changed little even if significant structural changes have been observed. High growth rates of China and India lifted millions out of poverty, while the stagnation in many African countries caused them to fall behind. Using the...

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Decentralization and Service Delivery

Ahmad, Junaid; Devarajan, Shantayanan; Khemani, Stuti - 2012

decentralization, based on relationships of accountability between different actors in the delivery chain. Moving from a model of … central provision to that of decentralization to local governments introduces a new relationship of accountability …. Only by examining how these relationships change can we understand why decentralization can, and sometimes cannot, lead to …

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Is the Developing World Catching up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion

Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012

The present study uses the GIDD, a CGE-microsimulation model for Global Income Distribution Dynamics, to understand the ex-ante dynamics of global income distribution. Three main robust results emerge. First, under a set of realistic assumptions, there will be a reduction in global income...

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Do Regional Trade Pacts Benefit the Poor? An Illustration from the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement in Nicaragua

Bussolo, Maurizio; Niimi, Yoko - 2012

enlarging its own liberalization to countries other than the United States to boost trade-induced poverty reductions. …

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Aid, Growth, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Go, Delfin S.; Page, John - 2012

Devarajan, Go, Page, Robinson, and Thierfelder argued that if aid is about the future and recipients are able to plan consumption and investment decisions optimally over time, then the potential problem of an aid-induced appreciation of the real exchange rate (Dutch disease) does not occur. In...

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Achieving Accelerated and Shared Growth in Ghana : A MAMS-Based Analysis of Costs and Opportunities

Bogeti??, ??eljko; Medvedev, Denis; Bussolo, Maurizio - 2012

This paper relies on the recently developed Maquette for Millennium Development Goals Simulations (MAMS) model to assess the consistency of alternative scaling-up and policy packages for growth and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Ghana. In the baseline scenario, Ghana's strong...

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Stress-Testing Africa's Recent Growth and Poverty Performance

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Go, Delfin S.; Maliszewska, Maryla - 2013

After an impressive acceleration in growth and poverty reduction since the mid-1990s, many African countries continue to register robust growth in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Will this growth persist, given the tepid recovery in developed countries, numerous weather shocks, and...

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