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Pro-poor progress in education in developing countries?

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009

Spurred by international commitments and expanded funding at the national and international level, attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this expansion in enrolments reduced existing inequalities in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254237

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349170

A human development index by internal migrational status

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009

Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396465

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 analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380403

Does gender inequality reduce growth and development? : Evidence from cross-country regressions

Klasen, Stephan - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001745512

Growth, income distribution, and wellbeing : comparisons across space and time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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

Grün, Carola - 2004

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

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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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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