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School Costs, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from Kenya
Evans, David - 2018
-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920302
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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda
Bundervoet, Tom - 2017
subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic …. For Kenya, the results of the analysis affirm that Nairobi County is the largest contributor to national gross domestic … official statistics in Kenya and Rwanda, it is important to estimate subnational gross domestic product using standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970754
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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya
Allen, Franklin - 2017
metropolitan areas, the analysis focuses on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974025
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Banking Sector Stability, Efficiency, and Outreach in Kenya
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
Although Kenya's financial system is by far the largest and most developed in East Africa and its stability has … of Kenya's banking system, using aggregate, bank-level, and survey data. Banks' asset quality and liquidity positions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976347
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Ageing Poorly? : Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent. Although the conventional explanation of a falling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959146
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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia
Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017
Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962321
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Mongolia : Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers
Freije-Rodriguez, Samuel - 2019
This paper uses Mongolia's Household Socio Economic Survey for 2016 to estimate the distributive impact of taxes and transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini coefficient of the pre-tax-and-transfer income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897558
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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is : Geographic Targeting of World Bank Projects to the Bottom 40 Percent
Öhler, Hannes - 2017
The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943104
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How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty?
Lakner, Christoph - 2019
The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in international development and agreed upon in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 10. Using data from 164 countries comprising 97 percent of the world's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865509
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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Poland
Goraus-Tanska, Karolina - 2017
This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether there is room for an increased role for fiscal policy in improving the wellbeing of the poor. The results show that the combined effect of taxes and social spending helped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968208