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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … (increasingly) positive from Hopefuls to Best Performers. Second, on within categories: (1) health spending has positive threshold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408491
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Disability, Health and Human Development
Mitra, Sophie - 2018
This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and … employment. It shows that disability needs to be considered from multiple angles including aging, gender, health and poverty … impairments and health conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930920
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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : a note on evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … of the 33 countries in the Hopefuls category are in SSA. Second, the effect of health is decreasingly positive from … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523138
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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2008
This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221786
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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736186
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"Economic development" and gender equality : explaining variations in the gender poverty gap after socialism
Fodor, Éva; Horn, Dániel - 2015
Using the 2008 cross-sectional wave of the survey Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and multi-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010514470
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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The poor, the prosperous and the 'inbetweeners' : a fresh perspective on global society, inequality and growth
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andrew - 2014
What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are predominantly attributable to rising prosperity in China....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251665
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Miserly developments
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008
inefficient, and politically corrupt. They provide their citizens with a low level of health care and education. Democracy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808963
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697413