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Development patterns and the international order

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1977

in the context of large scale econometric development modelling. I will discuss the results of the model and then analyze …The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order …. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate …

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Volatility and inequality : household vulnerability as uncertain welfare in rural China

You, Jing; Ozanne, Adam - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 27 (2015) 5, pp. 686-706

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Public Capital, Growth and Welfare: Analytical Foundations for Public Policy

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - Princeton University Press

, Growth, and Welfare provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of public capital in development … growth and human welfare, and develops a series of formal models for understanding how these channels operate. Bringing …

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Aid, Public Spending and Human Welfare: Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Gomanee, Karuna; Girma, Sourafel; Morrissey, Oliver - eSocialSciences - 2006

The paper addresses the issues of contribution of aids towards human development and the efficiency of such aids in … poorer countries, assessing if there is cross-country evidence for an effective human development by financing public … expenditures that increase welfare indicators. …

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Public Capital, Growth and Welfare: Analytical Foundations for Public Policy

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - Princeton University Press

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A fresh look at an old question: Is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

McKnight, Abigail - 2015

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine trends within countries over time and between...

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Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

Sahn, David E.; Stifel, David C. - 2004

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Just how good is unemployment as a measure of welfare? A policy note

de Dios, Emmanuel S.; Dinglasan, Katrina - 2014

The government is rightly concerned with employment generation to make growth inclusive. The use of the open unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is...

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Inequality and poverty when effort matters

Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor supplies of American adults have a positive income...

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Paradoxes of Social Policy: Welfare Transfers, Relative Poverty, and Redistribution Preferences

Brady, David; Bostic, Amie - In: American Sociological Review 80 (2015) 2, pp. 268–298

equality. Specifically, we investigate the relationships between three dimensions of welfare transfers—transfer share (the … average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism—and poverty and preferences …

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