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Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure: Mozambique and Vietnam ComparedChanning Arndt, Andres Garcia, Finn Tarp, and James Thurlow Economic growth typically reduces poverty, but global averages conceal wide variation at...
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Poverty Reduction and Economic StructureWhile economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth–poverty accounting and...
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Optimized Reservoir Operation Model of Regional Wind and Hydro Power IntegrationThe present study develops a reliability assessment method of wind resource using optimum reservoir target power operations that maximizes the firm generation of integrated wind and hydro power. A combined water resources model for a system of...
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When to Start a New Firm?The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting...
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Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Development Aid
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Social Service Delivery and Access to Financial InnovationThis paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Oportunidades programme. The switch from cash payments to electronic payments delivered via a bank account is found to have...
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The International Fiscal Implications of Global Poverty Reduction and Global Public Goods ProvisionThe mixed record on the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets and the focus on global public goods in post-MDG debates questions the future of traditional development co-operation (official development assistance, ODA). Meanwhile...
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Gains from TradePart of Journal Special Issue Globalization-Poverty Channels and Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
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Measuring the Business Environment for Entrepreneurship in Fragile StatesPart of Book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
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The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy NexusPart of Book Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Lagging RegionsUsing 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much promise...
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Measuring the Business Environment for Entrepreneurship in Fragile StatesThis paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the practical interest and relevance has been somewhat disregarded in academic research. Given the necessity to support policy formulation with...
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Transfers and DevelopmentContrary to the popular notion that money that is easily earned, is also easily spent, economic theory holds that income is fungible. Drawing on the concept of mental accounting, this study theoretically explores when such a link between spending...
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Poverty Reduction and Economic StructureWhile economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and...
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Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in AfricaWe examine the properties of alternative monetary policy rules in response to large aid surges in low-income countries characterized by incomplete capital market integration and currency substitution. Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium...
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Entrepreneurship and Human DevelopmentWe provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into...
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If People were MoneyIn this paper we elaborate on the findings produced by an applied equilibrium model that is used to calculate the annual efficiency gains from free international migration. These findings suggest that we can expect significant gains from liberalizing...
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The EU's Everything But Arms Initiative and the Least-developed CountriesUsing a computable general equilibrium simulation model and partial equilibrium simulations, based on the SMART model, the paper attempts to assess the aggregate worldwide distribution of gains and losses of the EU’s Everything But Arms (EBA)...
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Improving Financial Inclusion through the Delivery of Cash Transfer ProgrammesThis paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. The switch from cash payments to electronic payments delivered via savings...
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The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy NexusThe present paper utilises a short-run theoretical macroeconomic model of a small open economy to look at the impact of macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain...
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Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour MobilityThis paper computes the worldwide efficiency gains from the elimination of global restrictions on labour mobility using a multiregional CGE model. A distinctive feature of our analysis is the introduction of a segmented labour market, as two types of...
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Entrepreneurship and human developmentWe provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into...
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Gains from TradeThis paper reassesses the gains from trade for sub-Saharan Africa, and draws their implications for labour market adjustment and poverty reduction. It reviews previous studies on multilateral liberalization, focusing on the findings from computable...
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Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour MobilityPart of Book Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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The EU's Everything But Arms Initiative and the Least-developed CountriesPart of Book The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda
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From the Editor's Desk (December 2013)
10 December 2013 Tony Addison Our November-December Angle comes amid intense activity on our ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid—programme...
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Optimized reservoir operation model of regional wind and hydro power integration case studyPart of Journal Special Issue Prospects for Renewable Energy in Africa
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