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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 … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Cambodia's land management and administration project
Biddulph, Robin - 2014
This paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project. This was a project for which there was clear national demand, as evidenced by the fact that the Cambodian government had already attempted to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349406
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Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies
Gebregziabher, Fiseha; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014
Notwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349449
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Effectiveness of international aid for diarrheal disease control and potential for future impact
Cash, Richard A.; Potter, James R. - 2014
The reduction in deaths from diarrheal diseases is one of the significant public health successes of the twentieth century. That said, the disease still accounts for a significant burden of childhood morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Progress made in the past has, to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231632
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General budget support, health expenditures, and neonatal mortality rate : a synthetic control approach
Alavuotunki, Kaisa - 2015
I examine impacts of general budget support in 12 countries using the synthetic control approach. First, I analyse changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381763
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Connections and the allocation of public benefits
Newman, Carol; Zhang, Mengyang - 2015
We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes … identify provision of information as a mechanism through which households use their connections to obtain the poverty … classification, suggesting that information campaigns may be an effective means of eliminating local level corruption in poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488850
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The impact of foreign aid on maternal mortality
Banchani, Emmanuel; Swiss, Liam - 2019
In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals and the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986623
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Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes? : evidence from household panel data in Uganda
Pickbourn, Lynda; Caraher, Raymond; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2022
Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector. Given the importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461973
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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy
Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582864
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Poverty decomposition by regression : an application to Tanzania
Fujii, Tomoki - 2015
We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347261