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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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Narcotráfico, violencia y desigualdad: una hipótesis para el caso colombiano
González, Jorge Iván - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2001)
El propósito del ensayo es analizar los factores que explican la violencia enColombia; para ello, el autor, retoma elementos fundamentalmente en elneoinstitucionalismo, en el narcotráfico y en la desigualdad. González,después de explorara los tres elementos antes enunciados, plantea...
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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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Canada 2030: An Agenda for Sustainable Development
Kindornay, Shannon; Standards, Centre for the Study of … - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015
concise overview of the report in the eight areas it covers: poverty, education, employment and inequality, energy, the …
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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 …
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Building sustainability through greater happiness
Bartolini, Stefano - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2014
The current unsustainable growth of the world economy is largely a consequence of the crisis of social capital experienced by much of the world's population. Declining social capital leads the economies to excessive growth, because people seek economic affluence as compensation for the emotional...
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011
Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical framework of the social opportunity function, a...
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Economía doméstica y volatilidad financiera
González, Jorge Iván - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2002)
economic recovery must helpto decrease the poverty and inequity.Growth and social goals as well as poverty and equity are …
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Human Development and Economic Uncertainties: Exploring Another Dimension of Development
Uppal, Jamshed Y.; Mudakkar, Syeda Rabab - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 18 (2013) Special Edition, pp. 305-334
This study makes the case that economic uncertainties—i.e., the extent to which economies face systemic uncertainties—need to be considered another dimension of human development because they render development vulnerable, diminish social welfare, and constrain human capabilities. We propose...
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