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- How should MDG implementation be measured: faster progress or meeting targets?
- S. Fukuda-Parr;J. Greenstein / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2010
- This paper questions the methodology that is widely used to assess progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a methodology that asks whether the targets are likely to be met...
- The Vast Majority Income (VMI): A new measure of global inequality
- A. Shaikh;A. Ragab / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
- Does GDP per capita (or the average wealth per person in a country) reflect the amount of wealth that the vast majority of the individuals have? This briefing argues that this is not the case, as aver...
- The financial crisis and its impact on developing countries
- S. Jones;J. Ocampo / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- One of the key channels for transmission of the crisis from developed to developing countries has been via private capital flows though the impact of this has been more severe for emerging markets tha...
- Changes in earnings in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: disentangling the forces behind pro-poor change in labour markets
- E. Zepeda;D. Alarcon;F.V. Soares / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- After several years of recession and deteriorating living conditions in Latin America, economic growth started to recover in the 1990s. But growth was insufficient to counter rising rates of u...
- Impact is not enough: image and CCT sustainability in Nicaragua
- C. Moore / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- Among the many conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) implemented in Latin America recently, Nicaragua’s Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) initiative, started in 2002, is widely considere...
- The rich expand, the poor contract. The paradox of macroeconomic policy in Ethiopia
- D. Hailu / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- While rich countries are currently spending trillions of dollars to address the effects of global economic turmoil, including demand stimulation measures, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ...
- South-South cooperation in times of global economic crisis
- M. de Morais de Sa e Silva / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- While South-South cooperation was first thought of during the Non-Aligned Movement, the concept did not take off in practice until the 1990s and early 2000s when a few middle-income countries,...
- The macro-micro nexus in scaling-up aid: the case of HIV and AIDS control in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia
- D. Hailu;S. Singh / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- With increasing demand for resources to tackle the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, questions arise as to where such resources are to be found and whether they can be fully absorbed and spent. One major sour...
- What impact does inflation targeting have on unemployment?
- J. Divino / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- An inflation targeting regime uses the nominal interest rate as a policy instrument and aggregate demand is the transmission channel for monetary policy. On the real side of the economy, the consequen...
- Utility provision: contract design in the interest of the poor
- D. Hailu;P. Hunt / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- While access to basic utility services such as water, electricity and sanitation are essential for meeting internationally agreed development goals, many of these services remain unaffordable or unava...
