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Does Aid Work for the Poor?
McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; … - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the country level, which has looked mainly at the relationship between aid and...
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703204
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Pro-Poor Growth and the Lognormal Distribution
Lambert, Peter J. - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 3-4, pp. 88-99
) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828679
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Measuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth Within an Elasticity Framework
Essama-Nssah, B.; Lambert, Peter J. - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - 2006
Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635116
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Low-income housing in high-amenity areas: Long-run impacts on residential development
Thorsnes, Paul; Alexander, Robert; Kidson, David - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
Centre-left governments from the 1940s into the 1970s developed several large areas in the urban fringe of Dunedin, New Zealand for low-density, mostly single-family public rental housing. The public housing in these areas is now accessible, well endowed with natural amenities, and allocated to...
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Essays on Growth and Environment
Cialani, Catia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This thesis consists of a summary and four self-contained papers. <p> Paper [I] Following the 1987 report by The World Commission on Environment and Development, the genuine saving has come to play a key role in the context of sustainable development, and the World Bank regularly publishes numbers...</p>
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Accounting for recent trends in absolute poverty in Poland: A decomposition analysis
Brzeziński, Michał - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2011
This paper uses several decomposition of poverty and poverty changes to identify factors explaining recent changes in … absolute income and consumption poverty in Poland during 1998−2008. Shapley decompositions of poverty changes into growth and … redistribution components show that fast economic growth was the main source of a radical fall in absolute poverty since 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612955
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Burundi’s Growth: The Need for Long-lasting and Stable Performance
Nganou, Jean-Pascal; Wodon, Quentin; Zoyem, Jean-Paul; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992030
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Croissance du Burundi: La nécessité d’une performance de longue durée et stable
Nganou, Jean-Pascal; Wodon, Quentin; Zoyem, Jean-Paul; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992042
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Growth, Growth Accelerations and the Poor: Lessons from Indonesia
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Resosudarmo, Budy R. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset … the economy. We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth … and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality. We also identify growth acceleration episodes …
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