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Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effective in achieving these goals. This paper...
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In the wake of the current financial and economic crises, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa find themselves squeezed between likely reductions in official development assistance and the pressing challenge to eradicate poverty. Public expenditure allocation to the social sector and to public...
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employment in the nonprimary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender …
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labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …
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Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data … from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises … innovation when compared to male-owned enterprises. The endowments effect had a positive association with the gender innovation …
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Based on the standard axiom of individual utility maximization, rational choice has postulated that higher income inequality translates into greater redistribution by shaping the median voter's preferences. While numerous papers have tested this proposition, the literature has remained divided...
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We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth … observed individual heterogeneity. Overall, we find that the pension scheme smooths wealth dependence between generations in … the wealth portfolio. Complementary policy interventions, particularly for the poor across generations, would be needed to …
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This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …
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What are the major determinants of green growth? What role can the government play to promote green growth? To address these questions, this paper develops a simple Green Solow model that sheds light on the role of finance and technology in the process of green growth. The empirical section of...
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development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also …
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