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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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Evaluating the impact of global oil prices on the SADC and the potential for increased trade in biofuels and natural gas within the region
Moyo, Alfred - 2019
This paper investigates whether Southern African Development Community countries that are vulnerable to changes in oil prices could instead substitute oil and petroleum products with biofuels and gas from within the region. A pooled mean group estimator was used to determine the impact of oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003797
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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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Is the clean development mechanism effective for emission reductions?
Huang, Yongfu; He, Jingjing; Tarp, Finn - 2012
This research studies whether the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol achieves its objective of emission reductions in the host countries. It empirically investigates the impacts of CDM projects on CO2 emission reductions for 60 CDM host countries over 2005-10. This research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581394
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Climate change and the extractives sector
Addison, Tony - 2018
, transportation and construction to combat climate change. Adoption of renewable energy is accelerating across the world, but fossil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894275
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Looking ahead to COP27 - from climate pledges to action : the Global Methane Pledge - opportunities and risks
Romsom, Etienne; McPhail, Kathryn - 2022
revenue (by penalties and gas sales), improving health (by reducing air pollution), and helping to deliver greater energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441637
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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