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Alleviating Global Poverty : Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth

Pritchett, Lant - 2018

Decades of programmatic experimentation by development NGOs combined with the latest empirical techniques for estimating program impact have shown that a well-designed, well-implemented, multi-faceted intervention can in fact have an apparently sustained impact on the incomes of the poor...

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Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Low and Middle Income Countries

Lustig, Nora - 2017

Current policy discussion focuses primarily on the power of fiscal policy to reduce inequality. Yet, comparable fiscal incidence analysis for 28 low and middle income countries reveals that, although fiscal systems are always equalizing, that is not always true for poverty. In Ethiopia,...

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New Estimates of Global Poverty and Inequality : How Much Difference Do Price Data Really Make?

Edward, Peter - 2015

This paper makes new estimates of global poverty and inequality in 2012 using both ‘old', 2005 and ‘new', 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) price data in order to assess systematically what difference PPP data makes to the estimates. The methodology for the 2011 PPP data is thought to be...

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Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?

Leo, Benjamin - 2015

). Specifically, we focused on three primary research questions. First, can the mobile phone survey platform reach a nationally …? Third, how effectively does monetary compensation impact survey completion patterns?We find that samples from countries with … Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, it seems that offering compensation for survey completion mitigated attrition rates in several of the …

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Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Poor in the Developing World

Lustig, Nora - 2017

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in twenty-five countries for around 2010. Success in fiscal redistribution is driven primarily by redistributive effort (share of social spending to GDP in each country) and the...

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Gasoline, Guns, and Giveaways : Is There New Capacity for Redistribution to End Three Quarters of Global Poverty?

Hoy, Chris - 2016

Amartya Sen's famous study of famines found that people died not because of a lack of food availability in a country but because some people lacked entitlements to that food. Is a similar situation now the case for global poverty, meaning that national resources are available but not being used...

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Financial Crises and Poverty in Emerging Market Economies

Cline, William - 2007

This study examines the impact of the principal financial crises in emerging markets in recent years on the incidence of poverty in the countries in question. The growth impact is first identified by comparing average per capita growth in the two years prior to the crisis to that in the crisis...

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Where Will the World's Poor Live? An Update on Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion

Sumner, Andy - 2013

This paper updates the distribution of global poverty data and makes projections up to 2020. The paper asks the following question: Do the world’s extreme poor live in poor countries? It is argued that many of the world’s extreme poor already live in countries where the total cost of ending...

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Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?

Leo, Ben; Morello, Robert; Mellon, Jonathan; Peixoto, Tiago - 2015

). Specifically, we focused on three primary research questions. First, can the mobile phone survey platform reach a nationally …? Third, how effectively does monetary compensation impact survey completion patterns? We find that samples from countries … Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, it seems that offering compensation for survey completion mitigated attrition rates in several of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136203

Fiscal Policy, Inequality and Poverty in Iran : Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of Taxes and Transfers the Poor in the Developing World

Enami, Ali; Lustig, Nora; Taqdiri, Alireza - 2017

Using the Iranian Household Expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS) for 2011/12, we apply the marginal contribution …

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