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

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

health affect the allocation of aid in those sectors and overall, while greater female political representation appears to be … 'rewarded' with higher aid flows; employment gaps do not seem to affect the allocation of aid. Taking account of substantive and … statistical significance, overall, there is modest evidence that gender gaps affect the allocation of aid in total and for …

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

Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 70 (2015), pp. 464-480

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In search of the holy grail: how to achieve pro-poor growth?

Klasen, Stephan - In: Attacking poverty: what makes growth pro-poor?, (pp. 89-125). 2004

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In search of the holy grail: how to achieve pro-poor growth?

Klasen, Stephan - In: Toward pro-poor policies : aid, institutions and …, (pp. 63-93). 2004

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There Is Poverty Convergence

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus - 2016

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents evidence against the existence of convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and the close linkage between income growth and poverty...

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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...

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A human development index by income groups

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2006

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A human development index by income groups

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2007

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries. We suggest a relatively easy and intuitive approach which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparisons...

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What to do about rising inequality in developing countries?

Klasen, Stephan - 2016

In recent years, debates about inequality have reached a renewed intensity in international policy debates. This is partly the result of much better data on the extent of inequality, where the work by Piketty on the top 1% has revealed much larger (and rising) inequality than previously known...

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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...

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