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The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows … to rank countries according to their own monetary poverty reduction capacity. As shown in the empirical application, this …
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the long-run, growth reduces poverty. Yet, growth in output - per se - is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition … for poverty reduction in the short-term. The paper uses a number of parametric and non-parametric methodologies to assess … the relation between growth and poverty in Kazakhstan, a country that experienced rapid growth and poverty reduction in …
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The paper proposes a simple framework for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs based on single means differences …, FGT poverty measures and stochastic dominance theory. A Treatment Effect Curve (TEC) is derived and its use illustrated …
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This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that...
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The paper proposes an alternative index of relative deprivation which allows for selection of the reference group and imperfect information, two central elements of modern theories of social justice. An application to real data and a simulation on artificial data illustrate the use and some...
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We argue that a purpose of foreign aid is to whet the appetite of the recipient in order to bring about a long term commitment to what the donor perceives as a need, but which the recipient may rank lower down on his list of undertakings, or may be sufficiently resource constrained as to be...
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This paper analyzes the decentralization of decision-making in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In …, fashionable aid procedures will lead to the development of a poverty trap. …
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receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty … reduction is an independent goal as well, a poverty trap may be created. With good governance as a criterion, donors may work …
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Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085396