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Globalization, poverty and inequality: What is the relationship? What can be done?

Basu, Kaushik - 2005

The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the two are inter-connected. It discusses policy alternative...

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Globalization, growth, inequality and poverty in Africa: A macroeconomic perspective

Round, Jeffery I. - 2007

The last two decades has witnessed an increase in globalizing influences affecting most countries, Africa included. These influences have arisen partly as a result of domestic and international policies, such as trade policies, and partly as a result of general globalizing impulses, such as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284788

Aid and rent-driven growth: Mauritania, Kenya and Mozambique compared

Auty, Richard M. - 2007

This paper conceptualises foreign aid as a geopolitical form of rent in order to help distinguish the conditions under which aid is detrimental to sustained economic recovery from those where it is beneficial. Foreign aid shares with natural resource rent and contrived (i.e., government...

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The optimal distance to port for exporting firms

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim; Matthee, Marianne - 2008

Success in international trade depends, amongst other things, on distance from markets. Most new economic geography … models focus on the distance between countries. In contrast much less theorizing and empirical analysis have focused on how … paper we contribute to the literature on the latter by offering a theoretical model to explain the optimal distance that an …

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Economic well-being and non-economic well-being: A poverty of the meaning and measurement of poverty

Sumner, Andrew - 2004

This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of indicators: those measures based primarily on economic well-being; those based on non-economic well-being and composite...

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Projecting progress toward the Millennium Development Goals

White, Howard; Blöndal, Nina - 2007

The Millennium Development Goals have become the frame of reference for most of the development community: the standard by which performance will ultimately be judged. Given their importance, considerable attention has been paid as to whether these goals will be met or not. The overwhelming...

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Measuring pro-poor progress towards the non-income millennium development goals

Grosse, Melanie; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2006

In order to track progress in MDG1 and explicitly link growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, several measures of ‘pro-poor growth’ have been proposed in the literature and used in applied academic and policy work. These measures, particularly the ones derived from the growth incidence...

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Finance and poverty in Ethiopia: A household level analysis

Geda, Alemayehu; Shimeles, Abebe; Zerfu, Daniel - 2006

In this paper, using the rich household panel data of urban and rural Ethiopia that covers the period from 1994 to 2000, we attempted to establish the link between finance and poverty in Ethiopia. Our results show that access to finance is an important factor in consumption smoothing and hence...

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Vulnerability to hunger: Improving food crisis responses in fragile states

Andrews, Colin; Flores, Margarita - 2008

The paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognizing the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms could be improved to help decisionmakers better...

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Economic proximity and technology flows: South Africa's influence and the role of technological interaction in Botswana's diversification effort

Yaremye, Alexis Habi - 2008

In less than a decade after the end of the apartheid, South Africa has intensified its economic ties with its African neighbours to become one of the top-ten investors and trading partners of many African countries, displacing companies from the former colonial powers in Europe. Among such South...

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