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Why it Matters Who Runs the IMF and the World Bank-Updated October 2003
Birdsall, Nancy - 2003
Increasing integration has made the great challenge of reducing poverty and advancing human development more achievable than ever, and more dependent than ever on good global economic governance. In this paper I set out the economic logic for why good global economic governance matters for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509599
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Promoting Group Justice: Fiscal Policies in Post-Conflict Countries
Stewart, Frances; Cobham, Alex; Brown, Graham - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2007
In the aftermath of violent conflict, governments have an opportunity to address fundamental inequalities between internal groups. As taxation and expenditure policies are developed to rebuild a functional domestic economy and infrastructure, policies can be designed to lessen divisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027468
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Floating, Fixed, or Super-Fixed? Dollarization Joins the Menu of Exchange-Rate Options
McCulloch, Rachel; LeBaron, Blake - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 32-37
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Globalization and Human Development in Post-Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence from Panel Data
Cieslik, Andrzej - In: Oeconomia Copernicana 5, Issue 3 (2014), pp. 7-27
In this paper we investigate empirically the relationship between globalization and human development in post …-nificant relationship between globalization and human development in the case of unconditional regressions. This relationship remains … the level of economic development are taken into account the globalization variable loses its statistical significance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123023
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GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN POST-TRANSITION COUNTRIES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM PANEL DATA
Cieslik, Andrzej - In: Oeconomia Copernicana 5 (2014) 3, pp. 7-27
In this paper we investigate empirically the relationship between globalization and human development in post …-nificant relationship between globalization and human development in the case of unconditional regressions. This relationship remains … the level of economic development are taken into account the globalization variable loses its statistical significance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273816
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Regional Social Policy
Deacon, Bob; Ortiz, Isabel; Zelenev, Sergei - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2007
provide an alternative to the current pattern of globalization. The second presents the concept and dimensions of regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619271
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La croissance pro-pauvres au Mali
Raffinot, Marc; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Günther, Isabel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
Since the 1994 devaluation, growth has been quite strong in Mali (about 5%), but much weaker in terms of GDP per person (about 2.6%) due to a very high index of fecundity (6.8). Growth is still very unstable, due to a large share of agriculture in GDP (40%) and very sensitive to rainfall and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074441
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: focus on western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It particularly examines the program design and implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401358
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The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa: A Decomposable Gini Analysis.
Leibbrandt, M.V.; Woolard, C.D.; Woolard, I.D. - World Bank Group - 1996
Households in developing countries adopt livelihood strategies that often rely on income from a diversity of sources. From a policy perspective it therefore becomes important to understand the relative importance of income sources in driving inter-household inequality and poverty.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475234
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Poverty and Inequality Comparisons of Alternative Tax Structures.
Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1996
The objective of the present paper is to compare schemes using a welfare function that reflects concern for both poverty and inequality.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587791