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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 …

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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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Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold?

Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

The median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by blunting incentives, reduce the country's growth rate. But...

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Linking representative household models with household surveys for poverty analysis : a comparison of alternative methodologies

Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Chen, Derek H.C.; Grimm, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches are a simple micro-accounting method, an extension of that...

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Relative price changes and the growth of the public sector

Shahbaz Khan, M. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990

Policy recommendations to reduce the growth of public spending are haunted by the inevitability of two factors. First Wagner's law, the hypothesis that with economic development an increasing share of GDP is devoted to public spending, and secondly, Baumol's effect, that as economies develop,...

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Who paid the bill? Adjustment and poverty in Brazil, 1980-95

Fox, M. Louise; Morley, Samuel A. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

The difficulties most Latin American countries have experienced in returning to sustained growth after the world recession and debt crisis of 1982 have surprised and frustrated many observers. Concern is increasingly expressed about the social costs of this period of recession and adjustment,...

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