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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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Poverty, Human Capital, Life-cycle and the Tax and Transfer Bases: The Role of Education for Development and International Competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Wirtschafts- und … - 2011
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323207
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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From Social Policy to an Open-Economy Social Contract in Latin America
Birdsall, Nancy - 2002
, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. Integration into the global economy in the 1990s brought increased … paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509587
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Privatization in Latin America
Nellis, John - 2003
growing poverty and inequality levels in Latin America—and circumstantial evidence supports the claim. But recent and rigorous … unemployment and in equality, and either reduces poverty or has no effect on it. Still, while privatization may be winning the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509600
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The Evolution Of Education And Health Poverty During Economic Development:The Case Of Indonesia, 1991–2007
Sumner, Andy - Center for Economics and Development Studies, Fakultas … - 2013
This paper discusses the evolution of education and health poverty in Indonesia during a period of substantial economic … poverty using the Demographic and Health Survey. The case of Indonesia suggests that poverty may urbanize but remains largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660833
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Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean adult heights and living standards. If adult height is set by the balance between food intake and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279382
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Who are likely to be the future poor in Indonesia? Evidence on primary school non-completion from six rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey, 1991-2012
Sumner, Andy - Center for Economics and Development Studies, Fakultas … - 2014
The non-completion of primary school and educational attainment in general in Indonesia has been associated with an increased likelihood of being or remaining poor. In light of this, this paper considers the evolution of primary school non-completion using six rounds of the Indonesia Demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010836966
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Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean adult heights and living standards. If adult height is set by the balance between food intake and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548096
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Measuring education inequality in the Philippines
Mesa, Eirene P. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 44 (2007) 2, pp. 33-70
of schooling and gross domestic regional product, but positively associated with the income Gini index, poverty incidence …, and poverty gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677432