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Idiosyncratic Risk in the 1990sThis paper examines trends in idiosyncratic risk in different ‘new economy’ and ‘old economy’ industries, and explores whether these developments can be attributed to the use of IT. A CAPM-based decomposition of equity returns is employed to estimate...
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The politics of affirmative action: ethnicity, equity, and state-business relations in MalaysiaMalaysia provides for interesting paradoxes. Poverty was reduced by adopting a horizontal perspective to policy planning through affirmative action targeting one ethnic group lagging economically in society. However, outcomes of affirmative action...
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Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics?How has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending in reducing COVID...
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Cost Recovery and Equity in the Health SectorPart of Book Social Provision in Low-Income Countries
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Regional Integration - Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian EntityPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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Regional Integration on Uneven TermsPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
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Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?We develop the climate finance-gender equity framework in this paper and use the ‘contextual-procedural-distributive’ equity as a lens of analysis to examine how climate finance helps challenge, and reinforce, gender inequities in the mitigation...
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Taxation: Inequality, Equity, and Efficiency – An Interview with Michael Keen
8 October 2014 by Roger Williamson Michael Keen from the International Monetary Fund addressed the UNU-WIDER Development Conference in September 2014...
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Rising Inequality – How to Reverse It?30 October 2014 Dominik Etienne and Annett Victorero The last decade has witnessed a revival of concern over the impact of high-income concentration...
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Development PolicyThis paper discusses development policy objectives, noting how these have changed over the years, with a more explicit focus on poverty reduction coming recently to the fore. It also examines the relationship between economic growth and poverty...
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Development of Financial Intermediation and the Dynamics of Rural-Urban InequalityUsing China as a test case, this paper empirically investigates how the development of financial intermediation affects rural-urban income disparity (RUID). Using 20-year province level panel data, we find that the level of financial development is...
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Linking taxation and social protectionThe reduction of poverty, and more recently inequality, are pressing concerns in many low- and middle-income countries, not in the least as a result of the Sustainable Development Goals committing countries to significant improvements by 2030...
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Concepts and Operationalization of Pro-Poor GrowthGrowth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should...
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