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Essays in development economics : democracy and education
Idzalika, Rajius - 2016
Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu … variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et al. (2008), some support of causality is found particularly when … explaining heteroscedasticity. We also find democracy is a bimodal variable and approximate the distribution using two separate …
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The economic benefits of giving aid in terms of donors' exports
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903578
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The economic benefits of giving aid in terms of donors' exports
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2010
This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between bilateral and multilateral foreign aid and exports. There are three primary findings from this approach. First, in the long term, the average return, in terms of an increase in the donor's level of goods exports, is...
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Aid, politics, culture, and growth
Minasyan, Anna - 2015
Political misalignment and greater ideological distance between donor and recipient governments may render foreign aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and eroding trust. In addition, development aid from the West may lead to adverse growth effects in the global South due to the...
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Gender difference in support for democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa : do social institutions matter?
Konte, Maty; Klasen, Stephan - In: Feminist economics 22 (2016) 2, pp. 55-86
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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America
Klasen, Stephan (ed.);  … - 2009
High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved methods and data allow researchers to analyze these problems and how they are...
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Essays in empirical development and education economics
Lange, Simon - 2015
This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
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Targeting performance and poverty effects of proxy means-tested transfers : trade-offs and challenges
Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2015
In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based...
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Accuracy and poverty impacts of proxy means-tested transfers : an empirical assessment for Bolivia
Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2015
In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463386
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Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua : an individual-based approach
Espinoza-Delgado, José; Klasen, Stephan - 2017
Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all individuals in the household. This assumption,...
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