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Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are …
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Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital...
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When average incomes rise, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This holds across regions, periods, income levels, and growth rates. But relatively little is known about the broad forces that account for the variations across countries and across time in the...
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July 2000 - Poverty in the developing world will decline by roughly half by 2015 if current growth trends and policies … volumes of aid-that point the way to how the world could cut poverty in half in every major region. The fact that aid … world is not operating on the efficiency frontier. With the same level of concern, much more poverty reduction could be …
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