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Welfare trends in Romania, 1990-2014
Toader, Şerban; Iancu, Victor; Olteanu, Dan - 2016
We aim to clarify how objective wellbeing in Romania, as expressed by statistical indicators, evolved during two and a half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we investigated their evolution for five CEE countries:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930800
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Life Satisfaction Over Time Among Rural Low-income Mothers
Mammen, Sheila; Bauer, Jean W.; Lass, Daniel - 2009
The satisfaction with life (SWL) among rural low-income mothers was assessed using a sample of 163 mothers who participated in a multi-state, three-year longitudinal study. Dependent variables included those that represented various forms of capital (health, human, personal and social) as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256679
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AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
Thirumurthy, Harsha; Zivin, Joshua Graff; Goldstein, Markus - 2007
The provision of life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has emerged as a key component of the global response to HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012840
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The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
Clemens, Michael A.; Kenny, Charles J.; Moss, Todd J. - 2004
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be met by 2015, even if huge increases in development assistance materialize. The MDGs are a set of quantitative, time-bound targets for indicators such as poverty, education and mortality in developing countries adopted unanimously by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162635
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Aid Effectiveness and the Millennium Development Goals
Radelet, Steven - 2004
This paper focuses on key ways in which donors can improve the quality of foreign assistance and make it more effective in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The paper makes three central arguments. First, donors should be much more goal and results oriented in their assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162641
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Who is not Poor? Proposing a Higher International Standard for Poverty
Pritchett, Lant - 2003
Poverty reduction is now, and quite properly should remain, the primary objective of the World Bank. But, when the World Bank dreams of a world free of poverty—what should it be dreaming? I argue in this essay that the dream should be a bold one, that treats citizens of all nations equally in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162673
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Bootstraps not Band-Aids: Poverty, Equity and Social Policy in Latin America
Birdsall, Nancy; Szekely, Miguel - 2003
social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. In this paper we ask the … about the links among poverty, inequality and growth in the region and elsewhere. We emphasize the relevance of empirical … work showing that income poverty combined with inequality in access to credit and to such assets as land and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162682
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Why it Matters Who Runs the IMF and the World Bank-Updated October 2003
Birdsall, Nancy - 2003
why good global economic governance matters for reducing poverty and inequality in the world, and then develop several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509599
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The Buoyant Billions: How “Middle Class” Are the New Middle Classes in Developing Countries? (And Why Does It Matter?)
Sumner, Andy - 2012
Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people living on less than $1.25 a day and a further billion people living on between $1.25 and $2. At the same time, many MICs are also home to a drastically expanding emerging middle or nonpolar...
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The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America?-Working Paper 337
Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, Christian Meyer - 2013
In this paper we identify a group of people in Latin America and other developing countries that are not poor but not middle class either. We define them as the vulnerable “strugglers”, people living in households with daily income per capita between $4 and $10 (at constant 2005 PPP dollar)....
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