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Openness, inequality, and poverty : endowments matter

Gourdon, Julien - 2006

"Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in inequality in countries well-endowed in highly...

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Did growth become less pro-poor in the 1990s ?

Lopez, J. Humberto - 2006

explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible …

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The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies : a review of modeling approaches

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....

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Inequality is bad for the poor

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really … matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth. The author takes (1) as given but questions (2 …, influences the extent of poverty today and the prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future. "--World Bank web site …

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Globalization, poverty, and inequality since 1980

Dollar, David - 2004

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When is growth pro-poor? : cross-country evidence

Kraay, Aart - 2003

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Using survey data to assess the distributional effects of trade policy

Porto, Guido Gustavo - 2003

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Growth, inequality and poverty : looking beyond averages

Ravallion, Martin - 2001

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Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world

Wagstaff, Adam - 2000

Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...

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Do workers' remittances promote financial development ?

Aggarwal, Reena - 2006

"Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct … remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the … extensive literature that has documented the growth-enhancing and poverty-reducing effects of financial development. The …

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