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Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty and Inequality in Uganda : Fiscal Incidence Analysis Using the Unhs 2016/17
Mejia-Mantilla, Carolina - 2019
transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the … internationally recognized methodology developed by the Commitment to Equity institute. The results show that Uganda's fiscal policy …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda …
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Moving Out and Up : Panel Data Evidence on Migration and Poverty in Uganda
Mensah, Edouard Romeo - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between spatial and economic mobility in Uganda using longitudinal data from 2005 …
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A Global Perspective on Effectiveness of Aid for Trade
Berrittella, Maria - 2017
Recent global initiatives on debt relief and development assistance call for increasing aid for trade to the poorest countries. The paper applies a multi-country computable general equilibrium model to measure the effectiveness of alternative aid for trade categories. The findings show that aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975136
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Post-Hipc Growth Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bayraktar, Nihal - 2017
Access to debt relief under the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative enhanced the growth performance across Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the subset of debt-ridden low-income countries. Over the past few years, these Completion Point countries have enjoyed significantly higher investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975535
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To Give or to Forgive? Aid Versus Debt Relief
Cordella, Tito - 2017
Is generalized debt relief an effective development strategy, or should assistance be tailored to countries' characteristics? To answer this question, the authors build a simple model in which recipient governments reveal their creditworthiness if donors offer them to choose between aid and debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975676
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Debt Overhang in Emerging Europe?
Brown, Martin - 2017
This paper assesses the extent to which debt overhang poses a constraint to economic activity in Emerging Europe, as the region emerges from the recent financial and economic crisis. At the macroeconomic level, it finds that the external imbalance problem for Emerging Europe has been in most...
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Does Debt Relief Improve Child Health? Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data
Welander, Anna - 2017
This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative in the late 1990s to reduce the debt burdens of poor countries, and explicitly linked the initiative...
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Who Gets Debt Relief?
Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas M.; Kraay, Aart - 2007
The authors use preliminary results from an ongoing effort to construct estimates of debt relief to study its allocation across a sample of 62 low-income countries. They find some evidence that debt relief, particularly from multilateral creditors, has been allocated to countries with better...
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Infrastructure Policy : Basic Design Options
Klein, Michael U. - 2012
The paper lays out basic design options for infrastructure policy. It first sketches mechanisms to asses demand. Then it sets out a hierarchy of issues starting with choice of market structure followed by conduct regulation. Ownership options are largely a function of market structure choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096078
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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Datt, Gaurav - 2018
This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. The commonly-used counting measures violate the strong transfer axiom which requires regressive transfers to be unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to...
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