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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 …
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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 …
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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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Normative Analysis with Societal Constraints
Boadway, Robin; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...
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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation 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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Optimal taxation theory and principles of fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc; Maniquet, François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2015
The achievements and limitations of the classical theory of optimal labor-income taxation based on social welfare functions are now well known, although utilitarianism still dominates public economics. We review the recent interest that has arisen for broadening the normative approach and making...
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Politiques fiscales optimales pour les bas revenus et principe de compensation
Jacquet, Laurence; gaer, Dirk Van de - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2013
We consider an economy in which agents di¤er in terms of productivity (that may be either high or low) as well as in their preferences for labour. Individuals decide whether or not they enter the labour force. In this context and under asymmetric information, the optimal tax schedules derived...
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