Geography vs . Institutions at the Village Level Michael Grimm Stephan Klasen

Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on crosscountry regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot easily be controlled for. The innovation of Acemoglu, J...

Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Reassessment of the Paradox

Inequality in Human Development: An Empirical Assessment of 32 Countries

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simply approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows a comparison of the level in human development of the poor with the level of the non-poor within countries, but ...

Stephan Klasen ; Claudia Wink : A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality ?

Acknowledgments We would like to thank Amartya Sen for having inspired us to work on this issue over the past several years. We also want to thank Katarina Smutna and Andreas Beivers for excellent research assistance.

Analyzing the Level of Rural Settlement Services based on Distributed Justice(case study: Tankeman district)

Rural services and the power and location of rural services are one of the important issues in planning. In examining patterns and systems of rural services, the status and importance of each village in terms of utilizing a variety of rural services and its ability to receive or transfer Services are considered as an essential element and element. The spatial analysis of services can be describ...