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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462536
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574134
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New estimates of the cost of ending poverty and its global distribution
Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2024
This paper makes new estimates of the cost of ending poverty and the global distribution of both the cost and poverty itself. First, the paper discusses definitions of 'ending' poverty, arguing that there is an overemphasis (e.g. SDG 1) on the extreme poverty line which is insufficient for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582739
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Growth and inequality convergence : the role of environmentally related impacts on human capital
Mensah, Angela Cindy Emefa; Barbier, Edward - 2022
We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial incidence of environmentally related impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380662
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Sector, globalization and urban economic growth : evidence from Bangalore (India)
Narayana, M. R. - 2010
This paper aims at economic analysis of economic globalization and urban growth of Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of … contributor for degree of economic globalization and urban economic growth, mainly driven by ICT services. Bangalore's performance … implications for comparable Indian and Asian cities. -- globalization ; ICT sector ; urbanization ; urban economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662249
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Globalization and exclusionary urban growth in Asian countries
Kundu, Amitabh; Kundu, Debolina - 2010
This paper overviews the debate on the relationship between the measures of globalization, economic growth and pace of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661736
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Producing biofuels in low-income countries : an integrated environmental and economic assessment for Tanzania
Branca, Giacomo; Felix, Erika; Maltsoglou, Irini; … - 2014
This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233107
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics
Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022
What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century. This article critically reviews the recent empirical and theoretical literature on the complex interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816433