Call for papers – Nordic Conference in Development Economics – 18-19 June 2007

The Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen and its Development Economics Research Group (DERG) is organizing the next Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) to be held in Copenhagen on 18-19 June 2007. The conference aims at bringing together Nordic and international scholars for exchange of ideas and discussion of recent results within [...]

Education, Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth (IV)

Global Initiatives for Education For All (EFA)
As mentioned in previous weeks, a number of global initiatives are on the table to achieve “education for all”.  Today we will examine how close the EFA goal is to being achieved. This posting is based on research conducted by Bruns, Mingat and Rakotomalala (2003).
The MDG for education that was [...]

Analysing and Achieving Pro-Poor Growth

The latest issue of UNDP International Poverty Centre’s journal, Poverty in Focus, is fully devoted to the analysis of pro-poor growth and its policy implications and results. The authors spell out and apply different definitions and measures in discussing various policy-related aspects of pro-poor growth.
Featured articles:

Global Estimates of Pro-Poor Growth, by Hyun H. Son
Pro-Poor Growth and [...]

Education, Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth III

Average Educational Attainment of Adult Population by Region, 2000
Source:   Bruns, Mingat and Rakotomalala, 2003 
In terms of inequality and educational attainment, the research is even more strongly established, with illiteracy one of the strongest predictors of poverty and unequal access to educational opportunity one of the strongest correlates of income inequality (Bruns, Mingat and Rakotomalala, [...]

Democracy and Economic Growth

John Edwards and the fight against poverty

Sarah Jane Hise writes in the CGD Blog about presidential candidate John Edwards and his Global Poverty Proposal launched last week: “Restoring America’s Moral Leadership by Fighting Worldwide Poverty”
Three cheers for John Edwards for being the first presidential candidate of the 2008 campaigns to put forth his proposal on global poverty.
Owen also blogs about it: 
It [...]

Education, Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth II

Education, Growth and Poverty Reduction
One of the major contributions to the new economic growth literature has been the recognition that human capital is critical in explaining growth differences across countries, with human capital in turn relying on a strong education system. Education directly benefits the individual and has positive spin-off effects for society in terms [...]

Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals

Our colleagues from the Development Data Group at the World Bank have launched this online MDG Atlas.
Each map is supported by data tables, informative text, and charts in three languages: English, French, and Spanish.
Very useful, informative and easy to use. The option to have a map resized according to relative size of countries in relation [...]

The Gross Inequalities of Global Imbalances

Terry McKinley and Alex Izurieta write about global economic imbalances in UNDP International Poverty Centre’s February one pager.
 
According to this paper, the US is running a deficit about 3.5 times larger than the deficits of all other OECD countries combined. The average US current account deficit in recent years has been one third higher than [...]