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Measured as Poor Versus Feeling Poor

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. In addition to collecting detailed information on expenditure, the survey asked respondents to...

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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). However, this...

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Regional Integration in Africa

Political motives, geography, and the uneven distribution of gains trumped the traditional efficiency gains across Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The small, sparsely populated, fragmented, and often isolated economies across Africa...

Book Chapter
Regional Integration in Africa

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

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. Annual panel data over...

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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources

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. We...

Book Chapter
The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization

Part of Book Inequality, Poverty and Well-being

Journal Article
Aid Effort and its Determinants

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Allocations and Development Financing

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