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Aid and poverty: Why does aid not address poverty (much)?
Shepherd, Andrew; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013
preparation if poverty is to be taken more seriously by donors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319829
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary - 2012
poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319934
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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments: The gender dimension
Lauterbach, Claire; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013
Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out structural, financial and policy gaps that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319959
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Microcredit and poverty alleviation: Can microcredit close the deal?
Quibria, M. G. - 2012
This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit … supply constraints to the household's graduation from poverty. These constraints are difficult to overcome in a traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319881
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Aid, structural change and the private sector in Africa
Page, John - 2012
This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical constraints to private investment, infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319810
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Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust
Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424063
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319772
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Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador
Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012
This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319809
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Conflicting measures of poverty and inadequate saving by the poor: The role of status-driven utility function
Marjit, Sugata - 2012
nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319857
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Variable populations and the measurement of poverty and inequality: A selective overview
Subramanian, S. - 2012
involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319897