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During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality … various socioeconomic outcomes, it will be important to consider retooling existing pro-development policy interventions and … focus on human capital development, sustainable infrastructure, food security, and climate-smart agriculture practices …
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development analysis, challenges the existing development literatures and proposes a new paradigm of economism that incorporates … and re-interprets many of the post-war development issues. This book is largely conceptual in nature and philosophically … knits together development issues within the economic domain …
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Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality …
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income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … poverty is generated as the squared of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regression approach is used as an …
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development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty …The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …
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In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … on a large global panel of countries over the last decades which includes information on economic and human development … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …
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-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short …
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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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. In addition I briefly elaborate on the role of education, research, and training to enhance development capability and …This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …
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