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Distribution in late development: The political economy of the Kuznets curse in Brazil

Morgan, Marc; de Souza, Pedro Herculano Guimarães Ferreira - 2025

This paper proposes a novel assessment of the Kuznets curve for an underdeveloped country engaging in rapid late development. We mobilize new long-run data for Brazil, combining surveys, administrative records, and national accounts statistics, to compute macro-consistent income shares and other...

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Securing food, building livelihoods? A 15-year appraisal of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

Hoddinott, John; Berhane, Guush; Gilligan, Daniel Orth; … - 2024

adverse incentive effects on labour supply or fertility. There is some evidence that it improved schooling outcomes and …

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Poverty, inequality, and growth: Trends, policies, and controversies

Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo; Tarp, Finn - 2022

Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Much has changed in the global economy in recent decades and perspectives on progress made vary widely. This is even more so in light of the ongoing...

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Capital markets in sub-Saharan Africa

Njenga, Githinji; Machagua, Josphat; Gachanja, Samwel - 2022

Capital markets facilitate capital growth by mobilizing savings and converting them into investments, and they are … most sub-Saharan Africa countries recognize the importance of local capital markets and have made efforts to develop them …, they have not fully reaped the expected benefits. Hence the need for interventions to accelerate capital market development …

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Job accessibility and spatial equity: A city of Cape Town case study

van der Merwe, Jacomien; de Jong, Tom - 2023

Addressing unemployment and income inequalities in transport and land-use policies is important, particularly in South Africa, which is currently experiencing one of the highest unemployment rates and income inequality in the world. This research investigates the horizontal (geographical...

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Windows of peace: The effect of ceasefires on economic recovery

Armand, Alex; Marending, Myriam; Vysotskaya, Galina - 2023

While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been studied. By focusing on the universe of ceasefire agreements since 1993, we study the causal effect of peace on economic recovery using a regression discontinuity in time approach....

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Mapping the impacts of food aid: Current knowledge and future directions

Margolies, Amy; Hoddinott, John - 2012

This paper provides an overview on the impacts of food aid. We consider its effects on consumption, nutrition, food markets and labour supply, as well as the extent to which it exacerbates or mitigates conflict. We also consider the comparative evidence on alternatives to food aid including...

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Impact of sectoral allocation of foreign aid on gender equity and human development

Pickbourn, Lynda; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2013

While developing countries have made some progress in achieving human development since the turn of the century, many are still lagging behind in important human development goals such as education, health, nutrition and access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation. Moreover, gender...

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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities

Li, Jun - 2013

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...

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Climate variability and agricultural productivity in MENA region

Drine, Imed - 2011

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is particularly vulnerable to climate change. The severity of climate-change impacts is related to the geographic and ecological particularity of the region. The majority of countries in the MENA region belong to the hydraulic poor regions located...

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