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Poverty, inequality and migration in Latin America
Klasen, Stephan (ed.); Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas (ed.) - Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America / … - 2008 - 1. Aufl.
The causes and consequences of high inequality in incomes, assets, and many aspects of well-being in Latin America have recently (re-)emerged as a central research and policy issue. However, many open questions remain that will be dealt with in the contributions to this volume. First, the...
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Poverty, inequality and migration in Latin America
Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2008 - 1. Aufl.
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A decade after the global recession : lessons and challenges for emerging and developing economies
Kose, M. Ayhan (ed.); Ohnsorge, Franziska (ed.) - 2020
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Aid, politics, culture, and growth
Minasyan, Anna - 2015
Political misalignment and greater ideological distance between donor and recipient governments may render foreign aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and eroding trust. In addition, development aid from the West may lead to adverse growth effects in the global South due to the...
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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America
Klasen, Stephan (ed.);  … - 2009
High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramatically improved methods and data allow researchers to analyze these problems and how they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725839
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Determinants of pro-poor growth : analytical issues and findings from country cases
Grimm, Michael (ed.); Klasen, Stephan (contributor);  … - 2007
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Measuring poverty
Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2018
Robust is a Poverty Profile', World Bank Economic Review, 8 (1), January, 75-102 -- 12. Martin Ravallion and Binayak Sen …), Quantifying Absolute Poverty in the Developing World', Review of Income and Wealth, 37 (4), December, 345-361. …21. Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion (2001), 'How did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1900s?', Review of Income and …
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Measuring poverty
Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2018
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Why we don't see poverty convergence : the role of macroeconomic volatility
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Klasen, Stephan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2013
Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita income levels and the close linkage between growth and...
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Constraints to informal entrepreneurs in developing countries : an empirical analysis
Krüger, Jens - 2013
This thesis aims to narrow the research gap on informal enterprises, contributing to both the academic and policy debates. It provides empirical evidence related to two key questions: how much potential do informal firms have to contribute to economic growth, and employment creation? And, if...
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