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Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class : the case of South Africa
Schotte, Simone - 2018
The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...
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Essays on women and historically disadvantaged social groups, and Indian development policy
Bagavathinathan, Karan Singh - 2019
Die folgende These evaluiert drei indische Entwicklungspolitiken, dessen Ziel die Förderung von Frauen und historisch benachteiligten sozialen Gruppen ist. Diese drei Konzepte sind: der Vorbehalt für Frauen in öffentlichen Arbeitsprogrammen; politische Repräsentierung von Frauen in den...
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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective
Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016
Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non-income achievements in education and health. This article...
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Three essays in empirical and experimental development economics : pro-social behavior, monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Edward - 2014
monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical and experimental …
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The nexus between agricultural productivity, poverty, and social services provision in Sub-Saharan Africa : an empirical analysis
Reimers, Malte - 2014
This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority of the global poor and it will hence have to play a...
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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective
Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 90 (2017), pp. 147-168
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Economic inequality : causes, consequences, and measurement issues : an empirical contribution
Scholl, Nathalie - 2016
Inequality and fairness have always been at the heart of any political concept aiming at the well-being of the people … inequality, the existence of inequality aversion has become a generally accepted fact in Economics. This dissertation contributes … to the ensuing debate on causes, consequences, and measurement of inequality. It consists of three essays providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315933
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Essays in poverty, inequality and political economy
Lahoti, Rahul - 2017
The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608297
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Growth and well-being : introducing distribution-weighted growth rates to reevaluate US post-war economic performance
Klasen, Stephan - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 40 (1994) 3, pp. 251-272
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How narrowly should anti-poverty programs be targeted? : simulation evidence from Bolivia and Indonesia
Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2016
A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations of targeted transfer schemes and simulation exercises often point to further gains that can be had from targeted transfers vis-à-vis universal transfers or from more narrow...
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