This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel … cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing …

This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel … cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing …

importance of inequality as part of the global development agenda and details on the possible future governance system of … emergence, consolidation or strengthening of new donors and, secondly, changing map of development and global poverty. It is in …

findings. In the framework developed in this paper, the government can strategically design a weak governance system to promote …-transfer policy. The government chooses the tax rate and the degree of governance simultaneously to maximize the average income of the …

concise overview of the report in the eight areas it covers: poverty, education, employment and inequality, energy, the … environment, infrastructure, governance and international cooperation in Canada. Key themes discussed include global and national …

a day. Although they are above the average poverty line for developing countries, many people in these new â …€œmiddle classes†may be insecure and at risk of falling into poverty. This paper outlines indicative data on trends relating to … poverty and the non poor by different expenditure groups, and critically reviews the recent literature that contentiously …

conditions. Per capita income fell by one-sixth, poverty rose, and many social indicators worsened. These developments have also …

not find any statistical evidence to suggest that democratic governance and openness impact the effectiveness of aid in …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

$2 a day poverty headcount measure to changes in mean income and inequality significantly decreases with initial … inequality and the ratio poverty line over mean income - taken as proxies for the initial density of income near the poverty line … in poverty reduction across regions, the impact of variations in inequality and in elasticities of poverty is almost …