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Can the World’s Poor Protect Themselves from the New Coronavirus?

Brown, Caitlin S. - 2020

We propose an index of the adequacy of home environments for protection (HEP) from COVID-19, and we compare our index across developing countries using data for one million sampled households from the latest Demographic and Health Surveys. We find that prevailing WHO recommendations for...

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Global Energy Outlook 2015

Newell, Richard G. - 2016

This paper assesses trends in the global energy sector through 2040 by harmonizing multiple projections issued by private, government, and inter-governmental organizations based on methods from "Global Energy Outlooks Comparison: Methods and Challenges" (Newell and Qian 2015). These projections...

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The Global Energy Outlook

Newell, Richard G. - 2013

We explore the principal trends that are shaping the future landscape of energy supply, demand, and trade. We take a long-term view, assessing trends on the time scale of a generation by looking 25 years into the past, taking stock of the current situation, and projecting 25 years into the...

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty

Beck, Thorsten - 2005

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

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Why are the Critics so Convinced that Globalization is Bad for the Poor?

Aisbett, Emma - 2005

dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …

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Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development

Engerman, Stanley L. - 2005

Over the last few years, colonialism, especially as pursued by Europeans, has enjoyed a revival in interest among both scholars and the general public. Although a number of new accounts cast colonial empires in a more favorable light than has generally been customary, others contend that...

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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism

Abadie, Alberto - 2004

This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational...

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Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)

Deaton, Angus - 2003

used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … statistical procedures in poor countries understate the rate of global poverty reduction, and overstate growth in the world …The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than …

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