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Goals for Development : History, Prospects, and Costs

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Miller, Margaret J.; Swanson, … - 2013

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education, gender equality, the environment, and other aspects of human welfare. At existing rates of progress many countries will fall short of these goals. However, if developing...

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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation

Verme, Paolo - 2012

This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues of impact evaluations such as selection bias, behavioral responses, unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity, an incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social...

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Is Extreme Poverty Going to End? An Analytical Framework to Evaluate Progress in Ending Extreme Poverty

Yoshida, Nobuo; Uematsu, Hiroki; Sobrado, Carlos E. - 2014

The World Bank has recently adopted a target of reducing the proportion of population living below US$1.25 a day at …

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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …

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Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement : Synthesis and Overview

Hertel, Thomas W.; Winters, L. Alan - 2012

are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole. …

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Benchmarking Global Poverty Reduction

Ravallion, Martin - 2013

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The … about a 1 percentage point higher growth rate for the gross domestic product of the developing world, as long as this did …

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Roads out of Poverty? Assessing the Links between Aid, Public Investment, Growth, and Poverty Reduction

Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Bayraktar, Nihal El; Aynaoui, Karim - 2012

The authors develop a macroeconomic framework that captures links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty. Public investment is disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health, and affects both aggregate supply and demand. Dutch disease effects are captured by accounting for...

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The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid

Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2013

The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows how these tools can be used to guide budget allocations or the allocation of aid. The authors call this concept the income lever. Making use of tax and distributive theory, the...

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Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects

Angelucci, M.; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2015

This paper is a practical guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand spillover effects in program evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a field experiment to measure the average effects of...

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Social and Economic Impacts of Rural Road Improvements in the State of Tocantins, Brazil

Iimi, Atsushi; Lancelot, Eric R.; Manelici, Isabela - 2015

The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...

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