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Does Aid Work for the Poor?
McGillivray, Mark; Fielding, David; Torres, Sebastian; … - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the country level, which has looked mainly at the relationship between aid and...
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Narcotráfico, violencia y desigualdad: una hipótesis para el caso colombiano
González, Jorge Iván - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2001)
El propósito del ensayo es analizar los factores que explican la violencia enColombia; para ello, el autor, retoma elementos fundamentalmente en elneoinstitucionalismo, en el narcotráfico y en la desigualdad. González,después de explorara los tres elementos antes enunciados, plantea...
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Pro-Poor Growth and the Lognormal Distribution
Lambert, Peter J. - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 3-4, pp. 88-99
) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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Measuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth Within an Elasticity Framework
Essama-Nssah, B.; Lambert, Peter J. - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - 2006
Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …
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Building sustainability through greater happiness
Bartolini, Stefano - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2014
The current unsustainable growth of the world economy is largely a consequence of the crisis of social capital experienced by much of the world's population. Declining social capital leads the economies to excessive growth, because people seek economic affluence as compensation for the emotional...
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Low-income housing in high-amenity areas: Long-run impacts on residential development
Thorsnes, Paul; Alexander, Robert; Kidson, David - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011
Centre-left governments from the 1940s into the 1970s developed several large areas in the urban fringe of Dunedin, New Zealand for low-density, mostly single-family public rental housing. The public housing in these areas is now accessible, well endowed with natural amenities, and allocated to...
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Growth and Income Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty: A Decomposition Analysis for Ireland, 1987-2005
Are, Wasiu Adekunle - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2012
This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …
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Human Development and Economic Uncertainties: Exploring Another Dimension of Development
Uppal, Jamshed Y.; Mudakkar, Syeda Rabab - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 18 (2013) Special Edition, pp. 305-334
This study makes the case that economic uncertainties—i.e., the extent to which economies face systemic uncertainties—need to be considered another dimension of human development because they render development vulnerable, diminish social welfare, and constrain human capabilities. We propose...
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Economía doméstica y volatilidad financiera
González, Jorge Iván - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2002)
economic recovery must helpto decrease the poverty and inequity.Growth and social goals as well as poverty and equity are …
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