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Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the...
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In recent years, international trade in creative goods and services has been expanding. But this upward march is not lifting all boats. Although many developing countries are endowed with vast cultural wealth, they still lag behind. In addition, women are not faring well. Much needs to be done...
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Despite the growing body of literature examining the effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives, there remains limited substantiation for whether and how open budgeting contributes to reductions in poverty and improvements in the lives of the poor. This paper reviews available...
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This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
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This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...
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This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...
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the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …
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growth and economic development in post-colonial Africa. The paper investigates the paradox of increased female enrollment in …
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's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …
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selected countries in Africa over the years 2001-2012. It uses data from five emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China …, and South Africa) and advanced countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States … emerging economies and advanced countries has increased labor productivity growth and employment in Africa, when human capital …
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