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Are there lessons for Africa from China's success against poverty?
Ravallion, Martin (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003626173
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Are There Lessons For Africa From China's Success Against Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2008
At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521295
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Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success against Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2009
At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than Africa as a whole. Within five … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, two … years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561879
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Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2016
At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747483
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Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552272
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Social frictions to knowledge diffusion : evidence from an information intervention
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur; Ravallion, Martin - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431694
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Is Knowledge Shared within Households?
Ravallion, Martin - 1999
December 1999: Yes - and more efficiently by women than by men, according to this analysis of household survey data for Bangladesh. An illiterate adult earns significantly more in the nonfarm economy when living in a household with at least one literate member. According to theory, a member of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524577
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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016
Does knowledge about antipoverty programs spread quickly within poor communities or are there significant frictions, such as due to social exclusion? We combine longitudinal and intra-household observations in estimating the direct knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001217
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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016
Does knowledge about antipoverty programs spread quickly within poor communities or are there significant frictions, such as due to social exclusion? We combine longitudinal and intra-household observations in estimating the direct knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456795
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Is Knowledge Shared within Households?
Ravallion, Martin - 2016
Yes - and more efficiently by women than by men, according to this analysis of household survey data for Bangladesh. An illiterate adult earns significantly more in the nonfarm economy when living in a household with at least one literate member.According to theory, a member of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748925