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Population, Population Density, and Technological Change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2021

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005822811

Income inequality and carbon emissions

Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan; Martínez-Zarzoso, … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011

We document a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions per capita, using a newly available panel data set on income inequality (GINI) with observations for 138 countries over the period 1960–2008. Our findings suggest that, for high-income countries with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278125

Macroeconomic policy and pro-poor growth in Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan - 2006

In this paper, we analyze the potential and limitations of macroeconomic policy to affect propoor growth in Bolivia. After discussing the possibility to use macro policy to affect pro-poor growth in general, I then turn to the case of Bolivia, a highly dualistic small open economy that undertook...

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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...

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Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy

Klasen, Stephan - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265082

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 …

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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296031

Institutions, Economic Development, and Deforestation

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan; Schwarze, Stefan - 2009

This paper offers a unified framework linking two important debates: First, the debate about the respective roles of geography and institutions on economic development; Second, the literature on the role of technological change and economic development on agricultural intensification and land...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301491

Income inequality and carbon emissions

Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan; Martínez-Zarzoso, … - 2011

We document a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions per capita, using a newly available panel data set on income inequality (GINI) with observations for 138 countries over the period 1960-2008. Our findings suggest that, for high-income countries with high...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329901