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The nexus between agricultural productivity, poverty, and social services provision in Sub-Saharan Africa : an empirical analysis
Reimers, Malte - 2014
-authored by Stephan Klasen) aims to solve a micro-macro paradox on the role of education for agricultural productivity. From a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526649
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Education for all? : measuring pro-poor educational outcomes in developing countries
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2008 - Preliminary draft, May 21, 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902730
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Pro-poor progress in education in developing countries?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009
education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254237
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Armutsreduzierung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
In diesem Beitrag werden theoretische und empirische Zusammenhänge zwischen Globalisierung und absoluter Armut in Entwicklungsländern beleuchtet. Es wird gezeigt, dass die zunehmende Handelsintegration die Chancen für verbesserte Armutsreduktion eröffnet und viele Entwicklungsländer davon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265074
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Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265082
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Determinants of the growth semi-elasticity of poverty reduction
Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2008
In this paper we examine the mathematical relationship between growth and distributional change on absolute (i.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually superior and more policy-relevant measure than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281818
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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective
Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016
-income achievements in education and health. This article contributes to the literature by expanding the toolbox with several new measures …, poor education outcomes, poor health outcomes, low land productivity and low labor productivity overlap only to a small … decade of the 2000s. Our application shows that the enormous progress made in the income, education and health dimension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455218
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Levels and trends in absolute poverty in the world : what we know and what we don't
Klasen, Stephan - 2009
This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008. While they have little impact on observed poverty trends and while there are good reasons to believe that the previous numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255780
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Determinants of the growth semi-elasticity of poverty reduction
Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2008
In this paper we examine the mathematical relationship between growth and distributional change on absolute (i.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually superior and more policy-relevant measure than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876151
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality : Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and Their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317283