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    <title>EconStor Collection: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2009 (Frankfurt a.M.)</title>
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      <title>Inequality in the Distribution of Household Expenditure in Cameroon</title>
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      <description>Title: Inequality in the Distribution of Household Expenditure in Cameroon
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Fambon, Samuel
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In the literature, it is generally accepted that consumption is a more appropriate welfare measure than household income or salaries. This paper aims to investigate the evolution of expenditure inequality in Cameroon over the 1984-1996 period, with the help of Lorenz Curves, the Gini coefficient, and two entropy measures of inequality. Total expenditure inequality is decomposed into the within-groups and between-groups components using Theils decomposition techniques and household expenditure data derived from the 1984 and 1996 National household surveys (i.e. the 1983/1984 Household Consumption Budget (EBC) survey, and the 1996 Cameroonian Household Survey (ECAM1)). Decompositions are carried out according to the residence area (rural, semi-urban, and urban), stratum, age, educational level and the gender of the household head. Policy implications are discussed.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries</title>
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      <description>Title: Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Bah, El-hadj
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Differences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross-country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries all followed the same process. In this paper, I compare structural transformation processes in developed and developing countries. I nd that developing countries follow distinct structural transformation paths that deviate from that followed by developed countries. A puzzling nding is the presence of substantial sectoral changes during times of economic stagnation or decline.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Village Funds in the Rural Credit Market of Thailand</title>
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      <description>Title: Village Funds in the Rural Credit Market of Thailand
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Menkhoff, Lukas; Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper examines the contribution of recently introduced village funds in rural Thailand, one of the largest microfinance programs ever implemented. We use a cross-sectional approach examining village funds in relation to competing financial institutions. We find, first, that village funds reach the target groups of lower income households better than existing institutions from the formal sector. Second, village funds provide loans to those kinds of borrowers which tend to be customers of informal financial institutions. Third, village funds help to reduce credit constraints. Overall, village funds seem to provide services in the intended direction.</description>
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      <title>Health Programme Evaluation by Propensity Score Matching: Accounting for Treatment Intensity and Health Externalities with an Application to Brazil</title>
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      <description>Title: Health Programme Evaluation by Propensity Score Matching: Accounting for Treatment Intensity and Health Externalities with an Application to Brazil
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Most of the literature on health programme evaluation has estimated average programme impacts relying on either: (i) data on the presence or absence of an intervention in a particular locality, or (ii) data on individual participation in the health programme. By estimating an average health impact which is independent of the programmes population coverage, the empirical approaches of these studies overlook the important fact that public health interventions create externalities whose magnitude depends crucially on the number of covered individuals in a locality. The lain contributions of this paper are to suggest and apply an empirical approach for the impact evaluation of public health interventions which also takes into account treatment externalities, when non-experimental, routine data are available and under the assumption of average treatment effects by a propensity score matching-difference-in-differences estimator adapted to the case of multiple treatments, jointly evaluating the impact of different programme coverage levels. The methods are used to conduct an impact evaluation of the Family Health Programme (Programa Saude da Familia  PSF), the broadest health programme ever launched in Brazil, on adult and child health.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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