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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464042
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Time poverty and gender in urban sub-Saharan Africa : long working days and long commutes in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area
Carmichael, Fiona; Darko, Christian K.; Daley, Patricia; … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 1, pp. 343-364
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014472603
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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation
Verme, Paolo - 2008
incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216917
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The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon : The Role of Tax Policy
Emini, Christian Arnault; Cockburn, John; Decaluwe, Bernard - 2005
The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062992
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Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
Stifel, David C. - 2014
poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752460
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Costs of Taxation and Benefits of Public Goods with Multiple Taxes and Goods
Anderson, James E. - 2017
The recent public economics literature involves an apparent consensus that income effects reduce the costs of raising revenues and hence increase the desirable level of public good provision. Higher taxes can indeed reduce the demand for leisure -- and hence increase the supply of taxed labor --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976385
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Is human development multidimensional?
French, Declan; Moore, Michael J.; Canning, David - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 25 (2013) 4, pp. 445-455
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231029
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Articulating global prescriptions for health with local conceptions of well-being and risk : the case of physical activity and the World Health Organisation
Brangan, Emer - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 25 (2013) 6, pp. 866-879
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231905
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Distributional Effects of Crises : The Financial Channel
Halac, Marina C. - 2011
Financial crises affect income distribution via different channels. This paper argues that there is an important channel overlooked by the literature, namely the financial channel. We study how this channel operates by analyzing data from several Latin American countries, including Argentina,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714837
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The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Africa
Warlters, Michael; Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2005
The authors use a computable general equilibrium model to estimate the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) for taxes on domestic goods, exports, imports, capital, and labor in 38 African countries. The resulting MCF estimates provide directions for tax reform in Africa. The authors investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063029