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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 … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

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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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The Indian enigma revisited

Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022

This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...

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Issues and challenges in measuring national income, wealth, poverty, and inequality in sub-Saharan African countries : an introduction

Klasen, Stephan; Blades, Derek W. - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 59 (2013), pp. 1-8

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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 … of international poverty measurement gained in importance in public perception as poverty reduction was the first and … probably most prominent indicator of the MDGs and now SDGs. Since 1990, the World Bank has produced international poverty …

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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

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Operationalizing pro-poor growth, country case study: Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie; Thiele, Rainer; Lay, Jann - 2004

This case study examines to what extent Bolivia has been able to achieve pro-poor growth, what the mechanisms of achieving (or failing to achieve) pro-poor growth have been, and what options are available to ensure higher rates of pro-poor growth. The analysis focuses on the period from 1989 to...

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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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Determinants of the growth semi-elasticity of poverty reduction

Klasen, Stephan (contributor); Misselhorn, Mark (contributor) - 2006

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal distribution. We also test the empirical relationship of … the derived semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and them to explain changes in poverty very … well (in fact, better than a related study by Bourguignon (2003) that studied the regular growth elasticity of poverty …

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Analysing pro-poor growth in Bolivia : addressing data gaps and modelling policy choices

Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie; Lay, Jann; Spatz, Julius - In: Determinants of pro-poor growth : analytical issues and …, (pp. 191-218). 2007

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