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Month of Birth and Children's Health in India
Lokshin, Lokshin , Michael; Radyakin, Sergiy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon months have lower anthropometric scores compared with...
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Can Maquila Booms Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Honduras
E. de Hoyos, de Hoyos, Rafael E.; Bussolo, Maurizio; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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Can the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in FYR Macedonia Decrease the Gender Wage Gap?
F. Angel-Urdinola, Diego - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
This paper relies on a simple framework to understand the gender wage gap in Macedonia, and simulates how the gender wage gap would behave after the introduction of a minimum wage. First, it presents a new–albeit simple–decomposition of the wage gap into three factors: (i) a wage level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141803
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The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"
Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...
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Aid is good for the poor
Hirano, Yumeka; Otsubo, Shigeru - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal...
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Should income inequality be reduced and who should benefit ? redistributive preferences in Europe and Central Asia
Cojocaru, Alexandru; Diagne, Mame Fatou - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …
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Measuring inequality from top to bottom
Bazan, Diaz; Valeria, Tania - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252713
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Is there persistence in the growth of manufactured exports? Evidence from newly industrializing countries
Mody, Ashoka; Yilmaz, Kamil; DEC - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1994
Price and income elasticities estimated from a country's export demand function are used both to predict and to prescribe effective export strategies. But the focus on elasticities has led to the neglect of an important empirical regularity: a strong persistencein the growth rate of a country's...
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Inequality, the price of nontradables, and the real exchange rate : theory and cross-country evidence
Min, Hong-Ghi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002
The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … negative relationship between inequality and real exchange rates does not imply that policies aimed at dramatic redistribution …
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The effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution
Calderon, Cesar; Serven, Luis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to include, among … infrastructure assets, and (2) income inequality declines with higher infrastructure quantity and quality. A variety of specification … quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure development can be highly effective …
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