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Causal Inference and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Assessing Whether There Was an Acceleration in MDG Development Indicators Following the MDG Declaration

Friedman, Howard Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Background: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of eight goals and corresponding indicators that were agreed to following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration in September 2000 by leaders of 189 countries. The goals state specific objectives for the world to...

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Measuring and Explaining Country Efficiency in Improving Health and Education Indicators

Jayasuriya, Ruwan; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Governments aiming to improve the education and health status of their populations can increase the level of public spending allocated to these sectors, or improve the efficiency of public spending. Since increasing spending is often difficult due to the limited tax base of most developing...

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Accountability and MDGs: Methodology for measuring government performance for global goals

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko; Greenstein, Joshua - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2011

MDGs are global goals and are powerful tools of international policy because they create a framework of accountability by going beyond stating general objectives and set quantitative, time bound targets against which performance can be measured. This paper challenges the methodology...

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The Case of Mexico's 1995 Peso Crisis and Argentina's 2002 Convertibility Crisis

Pereznieto, Paola - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2010

Argentina and explore the policy measures that were put in place to mitigate their impact on the economy and more importantly …

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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom

Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we … Argentina but by only 2.4 percent in Bolivia. In Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia government revenues are close to 40 percent of …) for Argentina and slightly so for Bolivia and Mexico. In Brazil and Peru social spending is progressive in relative terms …

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Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Molina, George Gray; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2011

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Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative

Machin, Steve; Marie, Olivier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention - the Street Crime Initiative - that was introduced in England and Wales in 2002. This allocated additional...

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Poverty and Income Distribution in Chile: 1987-1998 New Evidence

Contreras, Dante; Larrañaga, Osvaldo; Litchfield, Julie - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 38 (2001) 114, pp. 191-208

This paper presents an update on the poverty and income distribution situation in Chile during the 90s. The analysis shows unambiguously that there was less poverty between 1994 and 1998 than in all earlier years, whether poverty is measured by the headco

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Do Agricultural Programs in Mexico Alleviate Poverty? Evidence from the Ejido Sector

Cord, Louise; Wodon, Quentin - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 38 (2001) 114, pp. 239-256

Following the economic and legal reforms of the early 1990s, the Government of Mexico has developed new agricultural support programs that promote productivity and facilitate the adjustment process, while not interfering with the market economy put into p

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Wagner's Law in 19th Century Greece: A Cointegration and Causality Analysis

Sideris, Dimitrios - Bank of Greece - 2007

The validity of Wagner’s law, which states that the growth of public expenditure can be explained as a result of the increase in economic activity, is tested for Greece during the period 1833-1938. This represents a period of growth, industrialisation and modernisation of the economy,...

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