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Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2016

The state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes. This paper discusses the advances in our understanding of the role of the state in the developmental process over the past thirty years, and the contribution to those advances played by changes in economics, changes...

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Tax revenue implications of trade liberalization in low-income countries

Moller, Lovisa - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

Liberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost revenues by other sources of taxation has been highly uneven...

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Dependence on extractive industries in lower-income countries : the statistical tendencies

Roe, Alan; Dodd, Samantha - 2017

This paper synthesizes statistical information evidencing the proposition that extractive industries are of great significance in many low- and middle-income developing economies. It examines the scale of the current dependence of low- and middle-income economies on both types of extractive...

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Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

Baland, Jean-Marie; Ziparo, Roberta - 2017

development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among …

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The donor footprint and gender gaps

Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Bonnier, Evelina; Olofsgård, Anders - 2017

In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded household surveys with aid projects. This offers a middle way between project evaluations and aggregated cross-country comparisons, measuring an average community effect around...

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An uncertainty approach to modelling climate change risk in South Africa

Cullis, James; Alton, Theresa; Arndt, Channing; … - 2015

This study represents the first attempt at an integrated approach to assessing the potential impacts of climate change on the national economy of South Africa via a number of (but not necessarily all) impact channels. The study focuses on outcomes by about 2050. The results show the multiple...

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Reversal of the Kuznets curve : study on the inequality-development relation using top income shares data

Tuominen, Elina - 2015

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …

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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...

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Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector : evidence from Sierra Leone

Harris, Jamelia - 2019

perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development … development sector. The results show that cognitive ability matters for occupational choice, as higher ability workers are more … likely to choose the development sector over other sectors. Skilled graduates also sort by intrinsic motivations to some …

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...

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