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Poverty Reduction During the Rural-Urban Transformation : The Role of the Missing Middle
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering migration out of agriculture into rural off farm … activities and secondary towns, and others undergoing rapid agglomeration in mega cities. Using cross-country panel data for … than agglomeration in mega cities. This suggests that patterns of urbanization deserve much more attention when striving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974402
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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction -- the Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
A rather unique panel tracking more than 3,300 individuals from households in rural Kagera, Tanzania during 1991 … moving to a city experienced on average faster consumption growth. Further analysis of a much larger cross-country panel of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974458
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Agglomeration, Urbanization and Employment Growth in Ghana : Evidence from an Industry-District Panel
Kerr, Andrew - 2019
In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated, using data from two firm censuses, as well as population census and trade data. The study is the first to use nationally representative firm data that covers the formal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865433
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Does Energy Efficiency Promoteeconomic Growth? : Evidence from a Multi-Country and Multi-Sector Panel Data Set
Rajbhandari, Ashish - 2017
This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 … high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954323
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Structural Reforms and Labor Market Outcomes : International Panel Data Evidence
Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017
collected from a variety of sources, including the World Bank World Development Indicators, the International Monetary Fund …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972444
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Mtefs and Fiscal Performance : Panel Data Evidence
Grigoli, Francesco - 2017
-country variation in MTEF adoption in a dynamic panel framework to estimate their impacts. The analysis finds that MTEFs strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975007
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Assessing Real Exchange Rate Misalignments
Kubota, Megumi - 2017
cointegration estimates, and (b) pooled mean group estimates for non-stationary panel data. The paper constructs a dataset of real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975532
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Measures of Fixed Capital in Agriculture
Butzer, Rita - 2017
Capital is a fundamental component of agricultural production, and the accumulation of capital is key to growth in agriculture and the process of development. Unfortunately, cross-country data sets on agricultural fixed capital are rare. Using a common methodology that allows comparisons across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976296
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Global Data Set on Education Quality (1965-2015)
Altinok, Nadir - 2018
This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929388
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Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China?S Rural-Urban Integration : Village-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate labor market restrictions. This study uses a discontinuity design with spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971262