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Local infrastructure, resilience capacity and poverty in rural Southeast Asia
Hartwig, Tim; Nguyen, Trung Thanh - 2022
, and 2016) from 1,698 households in Thailand and 1,701 households in Vietnam and employ an instrumental variable approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428192
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Can the West Help the Rest? A Review Essay of Sachs’ the End of Poverty and Easterly’s the White Man’s Burden
John, Arielle - 2014
The rival opinions expressed by Jeffrey Sachs in his book The End of Poverty and by William Easterly in The White Man's Burden epitomize the dichotomy in the economics literature regarding the role of foreign aid in eliminating extreme poverty. On the one hand, the majority of governments see...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069013
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Trade Interventions and Poverty Alleviation : Is Aid for Trade Helping the African Poor?
Páez, Laura - 2014
This paper discusses AfT's role in reducing poverty. Using cross-country data for 52 countries during 2000-2011, it assesses whether AfT has had a measurable direct effect on poverty in Africa. The paper finds compelling evidence that AfT has directly impacted on poverty, particularly in LDCs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060047
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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and the spirit of poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
The study extends the implications of Piketty's celebrated literature from developed countries to the nexus between developed nations and African countries by building on responses from Rogoff (2014) & Stiglitz (2014), post Washington Consensus paradigms and underpinnings from Solow-Swan &...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408865
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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa. This study extends the implications of Thomas Piketty's celebrated literature from developed countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548648
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Armutsmindernde Wirkungen ausgewählter Vorhaben des deutschen EZ-Portfolios in Burkina Faso
Jacobi-Sambou, Carola (contributor) - 2008 - 1. Aufl.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725109
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The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh
Bakht, Zaid - 2006
impacts of rural road projects using household-level panel data from Bangladesh. Rural road investments are found to reduce … output prices. Rural roads also lead to higher girls' and boys' schooling. Road investments are pro-poor, meaning the gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522185
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The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R. - In: Economic development and cultural change 57 (2009) 4, pp. 685-722
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015100173
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The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads : Evidence from Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R.; Bakht, Zaid; Koolwal, Gayatri - 2009
impacts of two rural road-paving projects in Bangladesh using a new quasi-experimental household panel data set surveying … for potential bias in program placement at the village level. Rural road investments are found to reduce poverty … local village markets. Rural road development has also led to higher secondary schooling enrollment for boys and girls, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561679
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The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R.; Bakht, Zaid; Koolwal, Gayatri - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003318713