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Aid and trade : a donor's perspective
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009
One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for Germany suggests an average return of between US$ 1.04 to US$ 1.50 for each US dollar of aid spent by Germany. Although this is well below previous estimates, the value is robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254238
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784721
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In search of the holy grail : how to achieve pro-poor growth?
Klasen, Stephan - 2003
Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite being widely used, the term is not well-defined nor has there been a clear policy document that would summarize the determinants and policy implications of pro poor growth. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518190
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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. While they have little impact on observed poverty trends and while there are good reasons to believe that the previous numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels...
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Determinants of the growth semi-elasticity of poverty reduction
Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2008
In this paper we examine the mathematical relationship between growth and distributional change on absolute (i.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually superior and more policy-relevant measure than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876151
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality : Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and Their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317283
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Is de-carbonized development possible? : household emissions and renewable energy in developing countries
Seriño, Moises Neil V. - 2014
developing countries. In this vein, this study offers a step towards answering the question is de-carbonized development possible …
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Trade and uncertainty
Johannsen, Florian - 2014
The five chapters of this dissertation deal with the topic of trade under different kinds of uncertainty. In the first … perceived uncertainty including exchange rate uncertainty on the decision of the export channel in the latter. The fifth chapter … especially uncertainty about future exchange rates has a negative impact on trade. …
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Essays on gender, migration, and development
Santos Silva, Manuel Pedro Duarte - 2018
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since … consequence of economic development. The first three chapters of this thesis revolve around two fundamental questions. What are … the consequences of gender inequality for economic development? (Chapter 1.) And what are its causes—i.e., why do we …
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Essays on poverty measurement and trade
Dotter, Caroline - 2016
the sphere of poverty measurement, the fourth essay is on the topic of trade and development. In recent years, the issue …The thesis consists of four essays in the broad spectrum of development economics. While the first three essays are in …
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