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Why cash transfer programs can both stimulate and slow down job finding
Mesén Vargas, Juliana; Van der Linden, Bruno - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 5, pp. 1-27
This article analyzes the behavioral effects of cash transfer programs when jobless people need to have access to a minimum consumption level. Our model reconciles recent evidence about negligible or favorable effects of cash transfers on job-finding rates and the more standard view of negative...
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Has economic growth in Balkan Countries been pro-poor in the 2012-2017 period?
Zwierzchowski, Jan; Panek, Tomasz - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 76-92
The study investigates whether economic growth in the Balkan countries was pro-poor in the most recent period. We also try to establish to what extent various measures of pro-poorness of economic growth produce consistent and comparable results. Firstly, concepts of pro-poor growth are defined...
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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2012
. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …
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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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How taxes and spending on education influence economic growth in Poland
Konopczyński, Michał - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 329-347
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth in Poland and four types of taxes and human capital investment. We primarily rely on an exogenous growth model that merges the Mankiw-Romer-Weil model, augmented with learning-by-doing and spillover-effects, with selected elements...
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The impact of food price shocks in Uganda : first-order effects versus general-equilibrium consequences
Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Pauw, Karl; Minot, Nicholas W. - In: European review of agricultural economics : ERAE 45 (2018) 5, pp. 783-807
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The role of financial inclusion in improving household well-being
Sakyi-Nyarko, Carlos; Ahmad, Ahmad Hassan; Green, … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 34 (2022) 8, pp. 1606-1632
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Reducing inequalities and strengthening social cohesion through inclusive growth : a roadmap for action
Boarini, Romina; Causa, Orsetta; Fleurbaey, Marc; … - 2018
The authors propose a policy compact to achieve more inclusive growth in G20 countries so that economic growth regains the ultimate sense of improving all people’s lives. Guiding principles are: 1) prosperity is not just about income but about all relevant outcomes of well-being and...
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Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries? : whether raising minimum wages reduces - or increases - poverty depends on the characteristics of the labo...
Gindling, Thomas - 2014
Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416331
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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics : snapshots of who is poor in one period provide an incomplete picture of poverty
Biewen, Martin - 2014
A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …
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