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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 …
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-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 …
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Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite being widely used, the term is not well-defined nor has there been a clear policy document that would summarize the determinants and policy implications of pro poor growth. This...
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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...
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