goal of poverty, and inequality-reduction in South Africa, on private sector-led job creation, and, has made a political …-created racial inequality, is also examined. Based on international experience, micro-finance should focus on outreach, quality of …

. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income … Mexico and are compared to panel data estimates from a short rotating panel. The results do find evidence of nonlinearities … in household income dynamics and demonstrate large bias in the panel data estimates. Nevertheless, even after allowing …

and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the … presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can …-classical measurement errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in …

probability of a crisis are of the expected sign. The panel data set covers the time period 1973 through 2003 for 90 countries …

corruption indicators world-wide (World Bank Institute 2006), Tanzanian stands out among those nations as having made significant … progress towards improving accountability and reducing economic leakages. Anti-corruption legislation was drafted for …