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Pro-poor progress in education in developing countries?

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009

Spurred by international commitments and expanded funding at the national and international level, attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this expansion in enrolments reduced existing inequalities in...

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Loss-of-Learning and the Post-COVID Recovery in Low-Income Countries

Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022

We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...

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Debt, Investment, and Growth in Developing Countries with Segmented Labor Markets

Buffie, Edward F. - 2020

We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …

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Income distribution dynamics and pro-poor growth in the world from 1970 to 2003

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

We estimate and analyze the global income distribution from national log-normal income distributions for the years 1970 to 2003, as well as the income distribution of seven regional subsamples. From these distributions we obtain measures for global and regional inequality and poverty, and find...

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Aid effectiveness and selectivity: Integrating multiple objectives into aid allocations

McGillivray, Mark - 2003

This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth. It also provides an overview of research on inter-recipient aid allocation. The overall focus of the paper is on the relevance of these issues for poverty-efficient aid, defined as a pattern of inter-recipient aid allocation which maximises...

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Poverty, growth and redistribution: A case study of Iran

Assadzadeh, Ahmad; Paul, Satya - 2001

This study examines the changes in the extent of poverty in Iran during the post-Islamic period. More specifically, it investigates the contributions of growth and redistribution factors to changes in poverty over a period of ten years (1983 to 1993). The analysis is based on household level...

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Childhood mortality and economic growth

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006

This paper investigates the extent to which the decline in child mortality over the last three decades can be attributed to economic growth. In doing this, it exploits the considerable variation in growth over this period, across states and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a...

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Inclusiveness of Economic Growth in Emerging Asian and European Economies

Sobanski, Konrad - 2017

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the inclusiveness of economic growth in selected South East Asian (SEA) and Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies over the last two decades. The discussion is based on concepts of inclusive and pro-poor growth. The author describes the characteristics...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

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