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Economies of scale
Working Paper
Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources: Evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa...

Collective model Sharing rule Economies of scale
Book Chapter
Regional Integration in Africa

From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2...

Commerce Economies of scale International economic relations
Working Paper
Measured as Poor Versus Feeling Poor: Comparing Objective and Subjective Poverty Rates in South Africa

In this paper, we compare subjective and money-metric measures of poverty in South Africa using data collected in the 2008/09 Living Conditions Survey...

Econometric models (Economic development) Economies of scale Income
Working Paper
Regional Integration in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Political motives, geography, and the uneven distribution of gains trumped the traditional efficiency gains across Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs)...

Commerce Economies of scale International economic relations
Book Chapter
The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization

From the book: Inequality, Poverty and Well-being

Economies of scale Index numbers (Economics) Welfare economics
Working Paper
The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization

The human development index (HDI) developed by the United Nations Development Programme is computed as the average of three equally weighted outcome measures: life expectancy (LI), educational attainment (EI) and income (WI)...

Economies of scale Index numbers (Economics) Welfare economics
Journal Article
Aid Effort and its Determinants

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Allocations and Development Financing

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economies of scale Panel analysis
Working Paper
Aid Effort and its Determinants

The paper empirically explores the factors that could have accounted for the generally declining aid effort (defined as the generosity ratio, or the share of GDP given as aid) of bilateral donors over the last three decades...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economies of scale Panel analysis
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