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Aid and trade from a donor's perspective

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902723

The search for a long-run aid and growth relationship : pitfalls and findings

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903299

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396465

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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International income poverty measurement : which way now?

Klasen, Stephan; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Greb, Friederike; … - 2015

In this paper, we critically review conceptual and empirical issues surrounding the derivation of the international poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP). We find that there are some limitations in the current...

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Why we don't see poverty convergence : the role of macroeconomic volatility

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Klasen, Stephan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2013

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

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Essays on international migration and informal markets in developing countries

Böhme, Marcus - 2013

This thesis looks at two topics that have been prominent on the development agenda for more than five decades: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their development potential, a clear understanding of the mechanisms at...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223163

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

A human development index at the household level

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

One of the most serious weaknesses of the human development index (HDI) is does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country. All previous attempts to capture inequality in the HDI have also used aggregate information and there exists no HDI at the household...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348169

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 … numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels of poverty in the developing world create new uncertainties und … cannot be very certain about levels of absolute poverty in the world and that the current method for generating these …

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