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The costs of missing the millennium development goal on gender equity

Abu-Ghaida, Dina (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Growth, inequality, and well-being : intertemporal and global comparisons

Grün, Carola - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014379137

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

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254239

Levels and trends in absolute poverty in the world : what we know and what we don't

Klasen, Stephan - 2009

This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008 … numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels of poverty in the developing world create new uncertainties und … cannot be very certain about levels of absolute poverty in the world and that the current method for generating these …

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New measures of gender inequality : the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)and its subindices

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009 - This version: July 23, 2009

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices Family code, Civil liberties, Physical integrity, Son Preference and Ownership rights using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and Development database. Instead of measuring gender...

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Essays on international migration and informal markets in developing countries

Böhme, Marcus - 2013

This thesis looks at two topics that have been prominent on the development agenda for more than five decades: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their development potential, a clear understanding of the mechanisms at...

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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid

Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013

Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education, health, and civil society projects could be affected...

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Income inequality and carbon emissions

Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan; Martínez-Zarzoso, … - 2011

We document a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions per capita, using a newly available panel data set on income inequality (GINI) with observations for 138 countries over the period 1960-2008. Our findings suggest that, for high-income countries with high...

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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity

Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...

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What do we really know? : metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition

Haen, Hartwig de; Klasen, Stephan; Qaim, Matin - 2011

In this article, we critically review the three most common approaches of assessing chronic food insecurity and undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood anthropometrics. There is a striking and worrying degree of...

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