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Easterly, William; Kraay, Aart - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Small states have attracted a good deal of research. The authors test whether micro-states are any different from other states in income, growth, and volatility. They find that, controlling for location, smaller states are actually richer than other states in per capita GDP. This income...

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The political economy of public spending on education, inequality, and growth

Gradstein, Mark - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

exclusion. This may then lead to a feedback mechanism whereby inequality in the incidence of public spending on education breeds … higher income inequality, thus generating multiple equilibria: with social exclusion and high inequality; and with social … inclusion and relatively low inequality. The author also shows that the latter equilibrium leads to higher long-run growth than …

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Credibility of rules and economic growth : evidence from a worldwide survey of the private sector

Brunnetti, Aymo; Kisunko, Gregory; Weder, Beatrice - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

Economic theory and case study evidence have long suggested that institutional factors, such as well-defined property and contract rights, may be crucial in explaining differences in economic performance across countries. Much of the recent discussion about"governance"has, for example, focused...

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Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?

Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

Poor-area development programs- in which the government transfers extra resources to unusually poor areas -have been widely used to fight poverty. There has been some research on such programs, but little is known about their impact on household living standards over time. The authors address...

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A unified framework for pro-poor growth analysis

Essama-Nssah, B. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

equivalent growth rate. This is a distribution-adjusted rate of growth that depends on the chosen level of inequality aversion … decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have blunted the poverty impacts of …

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Is India's economic growth leaving the poor behind?

Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, there is considerable diversity in performance...

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Growth, poverty, and inequality : a regional panel for Bangladesh

Wodon, Quentin T. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Most empirical work on how growth affects poverty and inequality has been based on international panel data sets … associated with rising inequality only in urban areas. Simulations based on these estimates indicate how much poverty reduction …

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International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries

Richard H. Adams, Jr.; Page, John - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Few studies have examined the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries. The authors try to fill this gap by constructing a new data set on poverty, international migration, and remittances for 74 low- and middle-income...

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When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states

Ravallion, Martin; Datt, Gaurav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

The authors use 20 household surveys for India's 15 major states, spanning 1960-94, to study how initial conditions and the sectoral composition of economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty. The elasticities of measured poverty to farm yields and development...

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Patterns of industrial development revisted : the role of finance

Fisman, Raymond; Love, Inessa - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

The authors reexamine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. First, they characterize the assumptions underlying previous work in this area, in particular, that of Rajan and Zingales (1998). The authors argue that Rajan and Zingales (1998)...

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