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Does Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? Empirical Evidence from Nongovernmental and Bilateral Aid »
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Source: Does Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? Empirical Evidence from Nongovernmental and Bilateral Aid
Volume/Issue: 2005/100
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Boriana Yontcheva , and Nadia Masud
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 May 2005
ISBN: 9781451861198
Keywords: Official Development Aid, NGOs, Panel Data Econometrics, infant mortality, mortality rates, aid effectiveness,
This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. We use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows. Our results show that NGO aid r...
Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending1 »
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Source: Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending
Volume/Issue: 2003/14
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2003
ISBN: 9781451843149
Keywords: capital deepening, gini coefficient, dependent variable, statistics, unequal societies, social security, Welfare and Poverty: General, National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs, Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance
The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The...