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What is the pathway to development in a world with less international integration? This paper answers this question within a model that emphasizes the role of demand-side constraints on national development, which is identified with sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is...
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The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...
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to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …
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This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
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Boosting convergence and shared prosperity in the European Union achieved renewed urgency after the global financial crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper sheds light on the relationship between poverty and...
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transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …
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