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Unconditional Cash Transfers in China : an Analysis of the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee Program

Golan, Jennifer - 2017

This paper examines China?s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income cash transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published administrative data, the paper describes the dibao program, estimates the program?s impact...

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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda

Bundervoet, Tom - 2017

subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic …. For Kenya, the results of the analysis affirm that Nairobi County is the largest contributor to national gross domestic … official statistics in Kenya and Rwanda, it is important to estimate subnational gross domestic product using standard …

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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries

Bhargava, Alok - 2017

future supply of skilled labor and economic growth. Evidence on these issues from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Kenya …

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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin - 2017

metropolitan areas, the analysis focuses on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in …

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Banking Sector Stability, Efficiency, and Outreach in Kenya

Beck, Thorsten - 2017

Although Kenya's financial system is by far the largest and most developed in East Africa and its stability has … of Kenya's banking system, using aggregate, bank-level, and survey data. Banks' asset quality and liquidity positions …

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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia

Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017

Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...

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Inequality of Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. This paper evaluates inequality of opportunity and the different sources of unequal...

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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Poland

Goraus-Tanska, Karolina - 2017

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether there is room for an increased role for fiscal policy in improving the wellbeing of the poor. The results show that the combined effect of taxes and social spending helped...

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All that Glitters is Not Gold : Polarization Amid Poverty Reduction in Ghana

Clementi, Fabio - 2017

Ghana is an exceptional case in the Sub-Saharan Africa landscape. Together with a handful of other countries, Ghana offers the opportunity to analyze the distributional changes in the past two decades, since four comparable household surveys are available. In addition, different from many other...

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Accelerating Poverty Reduction in a Less Poor World : The Roles of Growth and Inequality

Olinto, Pedro - 2017

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country...

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