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Essays in poverty, inequality and political economy

Lahoti, Rahul - 2017

The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … Consumption and Income Project (GCIP). They describe the construction of the consumption and income datasets and the evolution of … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

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The nexus between agricultural productivity, poverty, and social services provision in Sub-Saharan Africa : an empirical analysis

Reimers, Malte - 2014

this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority … of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …

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Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class : the case of South Africa

Schotte, Simone - 2018

The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...

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Partial least squares and principal component analysis with non-metric variables for composite indices

Yoon, Jisu - 2015

Ein zusammengesetzter Index ist eine aggregierte Variable, die aus individuellen Indikatoren und Gewichten besteht, wobei die Gewichte die relative Wichtigkeit jedes Indikators darstellen. Zusammengesetzte Indizes werden oft benutzt um latente Phänomene zu schreiben oder komplexe Informationen...

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Three essays in empirical and experimental development economics : pro-social behavior, monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asiedu, Edward - 2014

The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical and experimental methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social...

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Economic inequality : causes, consequences, and measurement issues : an empirical contribution

Scholl, Nathalie - 2016

empirical analyses in the broad spectrum of economic inequality, that is, inequality in wages and income. What are th... …

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Essays in development economics : democracy and education

Idzalika, Rajius - 2016

Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero-one-inflated beta distribution for the response variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et...

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Essays in empirical development and education economics

Lange, Simon - 2015

This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...

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A contribution to the empirics of development and globalization

Lohmann, Steffen - 2015

There are arguably few topics in current global economic policy as intensely debated as the impact of different facets of globalization on human development. Given that the concept of globalization reflects a multitude of economic and societal transformations, the scope of these discussions...

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Determinants of child development in India

Grafenstein, Liza von - 2021

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … unter 5 Jahren in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen wahrscheinlich nicht ihr volles Entwicklungspotenzial …To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 …

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