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This study examines the trajectory of global income inequality since 1981. Commonly used (relative) definitions indicate a decline in global inequality since the late 1980s. Looking ahead, it has been intuited that the influence of China's economic development — and that of other rapidly growing...
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The study analyses trends in global income distribution since 1950 using a new companion WIID dataset with standardized country income percentiles. It investigate the robustness of these trends with respect to key data choices, as well as the degree to which the inequality trend depends on specific...
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– Accounting for inequality changes in Spain during the recession
The author discusses a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources. The author estimates a matrix with rows and columns which indicate different population groups and income sources, respectively, with each element indicating the marginal...
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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– Evidence from Donor Campaigns for Temporary UN Security Council Seats
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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– The Division of Financing in World Bank Projects and Project Performance
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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– Aid Effectiveness and Malawi’s Local Development Fund
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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– What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us?
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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– Revisiting the Evidence
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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– Introduction and Overview
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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Over the past two decades, there has been unprecedented attention to the promotion of human development via government spending in the social sectors as a conditio sine qua non for economic growth and improved aggregate welfare. Yet the existing evidence on the subject remains limited and contested...
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Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
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