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This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the political economy in a way that engendered growth. Ghana...
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prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes …. Income increases below the inequality line decrease inequality; income increases above the line increase inequality. In … contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income …
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Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …
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summarize recent horizontal inequality trends across and within countries and to better understand these changes over time …. Importantly, significant differences exist for different inequality dimensions, i.e. economic, social, political. In terms of data …, few cross-country horizontal inequality datasets are available for research. In general, there is a trade-off between the …
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standards. The programme addresses typical causes of poverty among ethnic minorities and inequality between these groups and the …
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We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and … their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial … incidence of environmentally related impacts on health simultaneously worsens the rate of inequality reduction, we find that …
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We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …
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In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … distributive data consistent across countries and over time (World Income Inequality Database companion datasets). We show how the … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …
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highlight that the final impacts on poverty and inequality are heterogeneous across population groups. …
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zero and household real consumption reducing in all areas of the country. Meanwhile, inequality stagnated in the period … inequality for Mozambique and their trends over the last 25 years. Using real per capita consumption as the main welfare … aggregate, we look at various indicators of inequality, including the consumption distribution, percentiles and percentile …
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