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The aid-income link revisited : how plausible and robust are the results?

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2014

This study provides a re-examination of the aid-income link based on a panel data set which is downloadable at the Canadian Journal of Economics 45(1), 2012 issue. Longer time series data are available for a group of 58 countries and run from 1960 to 2007. In particular, the study aims at...

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan (contributor); … - 2004

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Economic inequality : causes, consequences, and measurement issues : an empirical contribution

Scholl, Nathalie - 2016

(Un-)gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit waren schon immer Kernbestandteil eines jeden politischen Konzeptes, welches das Wohl der Menschen in den Mittelpunkt rückte. Die Idee der Gleichheit ist so alt wie die der Demokratie selbst und neben instrumentellen Gründen, aus denen man (Un-)gleichheit...

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2000

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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Inequality in human development : an empirical assessment of thirty-two countries

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2008

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. We use a simple approach, which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows to compare the...

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The construction of the social institutions and gender index (SIGI)

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequalities in education, health, economic or political participation, the SIGI allows a new perspective on gender...

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Reforming the Gender-Related Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) : some specific proposals

Klasen, Stephan; Schüler, Dana - 2009

In 2005 and 2006, the Human Development Report Office undertook a review of UNDP's gender-related indicators, particularly the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). Background papers as well as the results of the process were published in 2006 (e.g....

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