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Fungibility and the Impact of Development Assistance: Evidence from Vietnam's Health Sector
Wagstaff, Adam - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
How can the impact of aid be estimated in the presence of fungibility? And how far does fungibility reduce its benefits? These questions are analyzed in a context where a donor wants to target its efforts on a specific sector and specific geographic areas. A traditional...
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WHY DO PEOPLE DIE IN EARTHQUAKES? THE COSTS, BENEFITS AND INSTITUTIONS OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
KENNY, CHARLES - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
Every year, around 60,000 people die worldwide in natural disasters. The majority of the deaths are caused by building collapse in earthquakes, and the great majority occurs in the developing world. This is despite the fact that engineering solutions exist that can almost completely eliminate...
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Global inequality recalculated : the effect of new 2005 PPP estimates on global inequality
Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
. Inequality between global citizens is estimated at 70 Gini points rather than 65 as before. The richest decile receives 57 …
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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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No condition is permanent : middle class in Nigeria in the last decade
Rodas, Corral; Andres, Paul; Molini, Vasco; Oseni, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
The economic debate on existence and definition of the middle class has become particularly lively in many developing countries. Despite this growing interest, the identification of the middle class group in these countries remains quite challenging. Building on a recently developed framework to...
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Equality of opportunity : theory and evidence
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vito - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
and Public Policy -- provides a critical review of the economic literature on equality and inequality of opportunity. A … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of …
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Was growth in Egypt between 2005 and 2008 pro-poor ? from static to dynamic poverty profile
Marotta, Daniela; Yemtsov, Ruslan; El-Laithy, Heba; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
This paper presents a detailed picture of how sustained growth in Egypt over 2005-2008 affected different groups both … conducted by Egypt’s national statistical agency, compares the changes in the static poverty profiles (based on growth incidence … initially non-poor households were exposed to poverty. As a matter of fact, only 45 percent of the population in Egypt remained …
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From flying Geese to leading Dragons : new opportunities and strategies for structural transformation in developing countries
Lin, Justin Yifu - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Economic development is a process of continuous industrial and technological upgrading in which any country, regardless of its level of development, can succeed if it develops industries that are consistent with its comparative advantage, determined by its endowment structure. The secret winning...
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Does female empowerment promote economic development ?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? The authors develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind...
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The time cost of documents to trade
Amin, Mohammad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between the number of documents required to export and import and the time it takes to complete all procedures to trade. It shows that an increase in the number of documents required for export and import tends to increase the time cost of shipments. However,...
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