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This paper investigates the linkage between social protection and economic resilience. Does social protection have an impact on income? What role do social protection policies play in strengthening a society's capacity to overcome economic hardships? The recent crisis has brought these questions...
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This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range … of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e … coherent and favorable pattern of results emerges. Aid has over the past forty years stimulated growth, promoted structural …
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Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The … causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address … impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …
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literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth … a positive and statistically significant causal effect on growth over the long run, with confidence intervals conforming … to levels suggested by growth theory. Aid remains a key tool for enhancing the development prospects of poor countries. …
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Capital markets facilitate capital growth by mobilizing savings and converting them into investments, and they are … therefore a stimulant of economic growth. There is evidence that countries with high savings rates tend to grow faster. Although … to incentivize investments; developing and implementing focused policies to support the growth of micro, small and medium …
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This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and...
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suggestions for conducting and presenting social mobility research: being explicit about several preliminaries-outcome of interest …
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, socioeconomic mobility was relatively high in China. However, as it underwent a period of rapid economic growth, China …
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Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries perform in analysis of low-income settings. Following brief, selective reviews of the axiomatic and econometric literatures, three mobility concepts illustrate how properties that...
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inequality, focusing on the very top-the top 1, 0.1, and 0.01 per cent of the income distribution. The focus on the extreme top … the very top of the distribution. …
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