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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...

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Tobin-Steuer: Neue Vorschläge entkräften nicht alte Einwände

Frenkel, Michael; Langhammer, Rolf J. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 82 (2002) 9, pp. 548-554

Kürzlich ist die ursprünglich von James Tobin vorgeschlagene Steuer auf Devisenmarkttransaktionen wieder in die politische Diskussion gerückt. Die deutsche und die französische Regierung haben sich bereits im vergangenen Jahr positiv zur Einführung einer Tobin-Steuer geäußert. Anfang 2002...

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The multilateral donor non-system: towards accountability and efficient role assignment

Reisen, Helmut - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-5, pp. 1-22

Global governance refers to several pillars; one important pillar is the multilateral aid architecture. Its reform can be discussed under the perspectives of representativeness, inclusiveness, and efficiency (of aid delivery). A prerequisite for efficient aid delivery is to map the rising...

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Assessing the allocation of aid: developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, … - In: The Indian economic journal 54 (2006) 1, pp. 26-51

In this paper, we perform a Tobit analysis of aid allocations, covering the period 1999-2002 and accounting for both altruistic and selfish donor motives. We first compare the allocative behavior of all bilateral donors taken together with that of multilateral aid agencies, and then look at nine...

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Targeting aid to the needy and deserving: nothing but promises?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - In: The world economy 29 (2006) 9, pp. 1177-1201

By reallocating aid to where it is needed most and where a productive use is most likely, donors could help alleviate poverty in developing countries. The rhetoric of donors suggests that this insight has increasingly shaped the allocation of aid. We assess the poverty and policy orientation of...

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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation: a preliminary impact evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 6 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

agricultural workers. This work occurs in the USA in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development … assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the USA with Haitian workers differs … roughly equally between Haiti and the USA; these benefits are very large, including raising the value of Haitian workers …

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A comparative view on the tax performance of developing countries: Regional patterns, non-tax revenue and governance

Ivanyna, Maksym; von Haldenwang, Christian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-32, pp. 1-44

Some countries fail to ensure that their citizens and businesses make an appropriate contribution to the financing of public tasks. But not all countries with a low tax ratio automatically fall into this category. This paper presents an approach to bridge the gap between probabilistic statements...

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Private Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation for Developing Countries

Rudolph, Karl-Ulrich; Harbach, Michael - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 2, pp. 33-39

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Interpreting sheepskin effects of investment in schooling

Shabbir, Tayyeb; Ashraf, Javed - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 202-215

In the last few years, significant amount of research has produced evidence in support of the signaling, credential or "sheepskin" effects in rates of return to schooling for studies of the developed as well as developing countries. An example of the former is the seminal empirical work by...

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Are EU non-reciprocal trade preferences passé?

McQueen, Matthew - In: Intereconomics 42 (2007) 4, pp. 205-218

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