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Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines: An exploratory analysis
Balisacan, Arsenio M.; Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to establish some basic facts about income inequality in the Philippines, with a special focus on the importance of spatial income inequality. Despite major fluctuations in macroeconomic performances, income inequality remained relatively stable during the years...
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Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India
Dhongde, Shatakshee - 2004
Over the last decade, India has been one of the fastest growing economies, and has experienced considerable decline in overall income poverty. However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states. In this paper, we analyze the differences between...
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How can Korea be a role model for catch-up development? A 'capability-based view'
Lee, Keun - 2009
There is some scepticism about Korea as role model of development as the Korean model involved a considerable degree of state activism, unacceptable in today's global environment. This paper propose a capability-based view of the country's catch-up development, arguing that the real lesson from...
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Poverty, pro-poor growth and mobility
Zhang, Yin; Wan, Guanghua - 2006
This paper proposes a framework for incorporating longitudinal distributional changes into poverty decomposition. It is shown that changes in the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index over time can be decomposed into two components—one component reflects the progressivity of income growth among the...
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Poverty and governance: The contest for aid
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008
Countries compete with one another for funds distributed by nongovernment organizations (NGOs). We examine the competition over poverty and governance conducted by a NGO in the allocation of its funds among potential recipient countries. The NGO in its decisionmaking process also takes into...
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Decentralizing aid with interested parties
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006
This paper analyses the decentralization of decisionmaking in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential recipients compete in hierarchal contests for funds. The...
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Entrepreneurship in economic development
Naudé, Wim - 2008
What is the role of entrepreneurship in economic development? At a minimum the answer should be able to explain the role of entrepreneurs in the structural transformation of countries from low income, primary-sector based societies into high-income service and technology based societies. More...
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Analyse du Processus de Convergence Dans la Zone UEMOA
Bamba, Lambert N'galadjo - 2004
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An Inquiry into Cities and Their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa
Naude, Wim; Krugell, W.F. - 2004
development of South Africa?s largest cities. Our local economic growth empirics show some indications of conditional convergence … convergence was found but this was driven by declines in the standard deviation of per capita income amongst the poorest quintile … of towns. An estimate of conditional beta convergence of 1.2 percent over the period 1990-2000 confirms that overall …
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Comparing regional development in China and India
Wu, Yanrui - 2008
convergence in the two economies. This is the first of its kind. The paper presents a detailed examination of economic growth in … countries and investigates whether there is any evidence of regional convergence during the period of rapid economic growth. It …
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