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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?

Sumner, Andrew - 2013

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015

unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark … consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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The international fiscal implications of global poverty reduction and global public goods provision

Fitzgerald, Edmund V. K. - 2013

The mixed record on the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets and the focus on global public goods in post-MDG debates questions the future of traditional development co-operation (official development assistance, ODA). Meanwhile, international financial crisis and fiscal retrenchment...

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COVID-19 and global poverty : are LDCs being left behind?

Valensisi, Giovanni - 2020

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April 2020 growth forecasts. The analysis shows that the pandemic will have dramatic consequences, eroding many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction....

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Data, global development, and COVID-19 : lessons and consequences

Naudé, Wim; Vinuesa, Ricardo - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy pitfalls; (2) predictions of crises and how they play...

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Structural transformation in the world economy : on the significance of developing countries

Nayyar, Deepak - 2016

future implications. The increased economic significance of developing countries, reflected in their share of world output …

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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?

Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...

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A proposal for a new universal development commitment

Glennie, Jonathan; Gulrajani, Nilima; Sumner, Andrew; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019

Most Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South. But what if all countries made a universal...

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Development narratives in a post-aid era : reflections on implications for the global effectiveness agenda

Gulrajani, Nilima - 2022

This paper argues that the crisis facing the development effectiveness agenda is fundamentally derived from limited collective commitment to a singular model of development, one where a developed North serves as model and funder for a developing South. This is partly the reason for the...

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Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation : empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Banga, Karishma; Harbansh, Pankhury; Singh, Surendar - 2023

Digitalization and shifting patterns of globalization are fast changing the rules of the game for countries embarking … Transformation Database with the UNCTAD EORA data set, World Development Indicators, and Penn World Tables. Structural transformation …

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