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How Has the Developing World Changed since the Late 1990s? A Dynamic and Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries - Working Paper 375

Sumner, Andy; Vázquez, Sergio Tezanos - 2014

Many existing classifications of developing countries are dominated by income per capita (such as the World Bank’s low, middle, and high income thresholds), thus neglecting the multidimensionality of the concept of ‘development’. Even those deemed to be the main ‘alternatives’ to the...

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An Index of Donor Performance

Roodman, David - 2004

The Commitment to Development Index of the Center for Global Development rates 21 rich countries on the “development-friendliness” of their policies. It is revised and updated annually. In the 2004 edition, the component on foreign assistance combines quantitative and qualitative measures of...

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An Index of Donor Performance-Revised August 2005

Roodman, David - 2005

The Commitment to Development Index of the Center for Global Development rates 21 rich countries on the “development-friendliness” of their policies. It is revised and updated annually. In the 2005 edition, the component on foreign assistance combines quantitative and qualitative measures of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162677

Brain drain, remittances, and fertility

Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …

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Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth? - Working Paper 366

Clemens, Michael; McKenzie, David - 2014

While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory—arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …

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Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development- Working Paper 354

Clemens, Michael; Ogden, Timothy N. - 2014

It is time to fundamentally reframe the research agenda on remittances, payments, and development. We describe many of … why these questions dominate, the most important of which is that researchers tend to view remittances as states do (as …

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Insurance against local productivity shocks

Pérez-Cervantes, Fernando - 2016

I slightly modify the model of Monte et al. (2015) to estimate how workers in Mexican municipalities choose the location of their workplace based on the income gains from commuting to another municipality. Estimates are in line with the intuition: Static estimates for both 2010 and 2015 suggest...

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Scholars Who Became Practitioners - Working Paper 263

Lustig, Nora - 2011

Celebrated by academics, multilateral organizations, policymakers and the media, Mexico’s Progresa/Oportunidades conditional cash transfers program (CCT) is constantly used as a model of a successful antipoverty program. This paper argues that the transformation of well-trained scholars into...

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Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336

Pritchett, Lant; Sandefur, Justin - 2013

In this paper we examine how policymakers and practitioners should interpret the impact evaluation literature when presented with conflicting experimental and non-experimental estimates of the same intervention across varying contexts. We show three things. First, as is well known,...

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Key sectors in economic development: A perspective from input-output linkages and cross-sector misallocation

Leal, Julio - 2015

For a typical developing country, this paper shows that once inter-sectoral linkages are taken into account, closing the productivity gap in a number of services gives bigger gains in aggregate productivity than closing it in agriculture or in manufacturing. This is performed in the context of...

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