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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552483
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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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Inequality from a global perspective: An alternative approach
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878113
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Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): Estimating the Incidence of Social Spending, Subsidies and Taxes Handbook
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
This handbook presents a step-by-step guide to applying the incidence analysis used in the multi-country project CEQ. We define the pre- and post-net transfers income concepts, discuss the methodological assumptions used to construct them, explain how taxes, subsidies and transfers should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904621
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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country
Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2013
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905959
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Boats and tides and "trickle down" theories: What economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012), pp. 1-44
. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954763
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Boats and tides and "Trickle Down" theories: What economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956065
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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components
Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252595
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Expected Poverty Changes with Economic Growth and Redistribution
Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012
or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541470
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The Geography of Inequality: Where and by How Much Has Income Distribution Changed since 1990?-Working Paper 341
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - 2013
The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. However, drawing conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729175