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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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Beyond Income Poverty : Nonmonetary Dimensions of Poverty in Uganda

Etang Ndip, Alvin - 2017

survey data, this paper analyzes nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and trends, to explore whether the … Uganda's progress in reducing poverty is strongly reflected in several nonmonetary indicators of poverty. The analysis finds … paper also examines whether progress has been as fast as would be expected, given Uganda's impressive performance in …

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Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty and Inequality in Uganda : Fiscal Incidence Analysis Using the Unhs 2016/17

Mejía 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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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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What Does Debt Relief Do for Development? Evidence from India's Bailout Program for Highly-Indebted Rural Households

Kanz, Martin - 2017

This paper studies the impact of a large debt relief program, intended to attenuate investment constraints among highly-indebted households in rural India. It isolates the causal effect of bankruptcy-like debt relief settlements using a natural experiment arising from India's Debt Relief Program...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Who Gets Debt Relief?

Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas; 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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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation

Verme, Paolo - 2008

This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues of impact evaluations such as selection bias, behavioral responses, unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity, an incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social...

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