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Empowering Cities : Good for Growth? Evidence from the People's Republic of China
Mukim, Megha - 2018
This paper utilizes a countrywide process of county-to-city upgrading in the 1990s to identify whether extending the powers of urban local governments leads to better firm outcomes. The paper hypothesizes that since local leaders in newly promoted cities have an incentive to utilize their new...
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Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 3: Decentralisation, Infrastructure Investment and Educational Performance
Fredriksen, Kaja - 2013
analyses the link between decentralisation and the composition of public spending as well as the relation between … decentralisation and educational performance. The results suggest that fiscal decentralisation increases the share of public funds … spending and other variables affecting education. A 10% point increase in decentralisation increases educational performance by …
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/65, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
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A survey of the role of fiscal policy in addressing income inequality, poverty reduction and inclusive growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
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Making New Zealand's economic growth more inclusive
Carey, David - 2015
New Zealand generally performs well in terms of economic and social inclusion. It has high employment rates, and education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material deprivation and multiple barriers to economic and social...
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SDG 1 2030 for ending poverty : can achieve this goal in the Balkan countries?
Stoilkovska, Aleksandra; Nikolovska, Marija Apostolova - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 12 (2021) 2, pp. 240-252
The eradication of poverty as the main target of Sustainable Development Goal 1 by 2030 is the subject of this paper, which analyzes the national voluntary reviews of the Balkan countries and the data presented in them and which are primarily related to poverty as a multidimensional concept....
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Antipoverty Transfers and Inclusive Growth in Brazil
Barrientos, Armando - 2014
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Poverty Reduction in 1990s : A Comparison of India and China
John, Rijo M. - 2006
This paper tries to make a comparative study of poverty reduction in India and China during 1990s. This study could find that there are many factors in common between these two countries in their road to poverty reduction. It has been observed that in both India and China the absolute poverty...
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How Does the Composition of Public Spending Matter?
Paternostro, Stefano; Tiongson, Erwin R.; Rajaram, Anand - 2005
Public spending has effects which are complex to trace and difficult to quantify. But the composition of public expenditure has become the key instrument by which development agencies seek to promote economic development. In recent years, the development assistance to heavily indebted poor...
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What is Pro-Poor?
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin T. - 2004
Assessing whether distributional changes are pro-poor has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
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