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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2008

"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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Cheap but flighty : how global imbalances create financial fragility

Ahnert, Toni; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2015

We analyze how a wealth shift to emerging countries may lead to instability in developed countries. Investors exposed to expropriation risk are willing to pay a safety premium to invest in countries with good property rights. Domestic intermediaries compete for such cheap funding by carving out...

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Governance matters IV : governance indicators for 1996-2004, volume 1 of 2

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2005

against recent efforts to apply a discount to governance performance in low-income countries. "--World Bank web site …

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Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate

Ravallion, Martin - 2004

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Governance matters III : governance indicators for 1996-2002

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003

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The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality : why measurement matters

Ravallion, Martin - 2003

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Institutions, trade, and growth : revisiting the evidence

Dollar, David - 2003

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Growth without governance

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2002

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Governance matters II : updated indicators for 2000-01

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2002

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Growth is good for the poor

Dollar, David - 2001

When average incomes rise, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This holds across regions, periods, income levels, and growth rates. But relatively little is known about the broad forces that account for the variations across countries and across time in the...

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