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Aid allocation with optimal monitoring: Theory and policy by Bourguignon, François, Platteau, Jean-Philippe

“…We explore the implications of allowing a poverty-averse donor to monitor aid use within the familiar context of the needs vs. aid effectiveness tradeoff. The…”
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Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Reward Better Governance? A Paradox of Aid Allocation by Bourguignon, François, Platteau, Jean-Philippe

“…This article revisits the inter-country aid allocation by a donor who must distribute a given aid amount and is sensitive to needs and governance…”
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Evaluating the Distributive Incidence of Growth Using Cross‐sections and Panels by Berman, Yonatan, Bourguignon, François

“…We study decennial anonymous and non‐anonymous growth incidence curves in the United States during the past 50 years. The former show income growth by quantile…”
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Simple adjustments of observed distributions for missing income and missing people by Bourguignon, François

“…Correcting household survey distribution data for missing income or for undersampling may give an idea of the extent of possible biases in measuring…”
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On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves by Berman, Yonatan, Bourguignon, François

“…The Growth Incidence Curve (GIC), introduced in the poverty measurement literature by Ravallion and Chen (Econ. Lett. 78 (1), 93–99, 2003), proved to be a…”
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SELECTION BIAS CORRECTIONS BASED ON THE MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL: MONTE CARLO COMPARISONS by Bourguignon, François, Fournier, Martin, Gurgand, Marc

“…This survey presents the set of methods available in the literature on selection bias correction, when selection is specified as a multinomial logit model. It…”
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Non-anonymous growth incidence curves, income mobility and social welfare dominance by Bourguignon, François

“…The distributional incidence of growth is generally analyzed by comparing the quantiles of the pre- and post-growth income distribution—e.g. the so-called…”
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Appraising income inequality databases in Latin America by Bourguignon, François

“…This paper provides an evaluation of the main income distribution databases in Latin America: the CEPALSTAT and the SEDLAC databases. Alhough they rely on the…”
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The Hard Challenge of Aid Coordination by Bourguignon, François, Platteau, Jean-Philippe

“…Aid coordination is a constant theme of discussion among national and international aid agencies in their search for more effectiveness and efficiency in…”
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Inequality among World Citizens: 1820-1992 by Bourguignon, François, Morrisson, Christian

“…This paper investigates the distribution of well being among world citizens during the last two centuries. The estimates show that inequality of world…”
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Does Aid Availability Affect Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty? A Review Article by Bourguignon, François, Platteau, Jean-Philippe

“…This paper addresses the impact of aid supply on aid effectiveness. First, we review theoretical literature that deals with the problem of governance in…”
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Aid Effectiveness: Opening the Black Box by Bourguignon, François, Sundberg, Mark

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Conférence présidentielle Revisiting the Debate on Inequality and Economic Development by Bourguignon, François

“…This paper offers a selective survey of the abundant theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented literature on the relationship between inequality and…”
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Optimal management of transfers: An odd paradox by Bourguignon, François, Platteau, Jean-Philippe

“…This paper considers the case of transfers when there exists a serious preference misalignment between the transfer-maker and the beneficiary. The former wants…”
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Aid allocation: The role of external discipline by Bourguignon, François, Platteau, Jean-Philippe

“…Using an approach that embodies an explicit tradeoff between need and governance considerations, we propose an optimal aid allocation formula. We first assume…”
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Inequality of opportunity in Brazil by Bourguignon, François, Ferreira, Francisco H. G, Menéndez, Marta

“…This paper proposes a measure of the contribution of unequal opportunities to earnings inequality. Drawing on the distinction between “circumstance” and…”
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Efficient Intra-Household Allocations and Distribution Factors: Implications and Identification by BOURGUIGNON, FRANÇOIS, BROWNING, MARTIN, CHIAPPORI, PIERRE-ANDRÉ

“…This paper provides an exhaustive characterization of testability and identifiability issues in the collective framework in the absence of price variation; it…”
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Tax–benefit revealed social preferences by Bourguignon, François, Spadaro, Amedeo

“…This paper inverts the usual logic of applied optimal income taxation. It starts from the observed distribution of income before and after redistribution and…”
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STATUS QUO IN THE WELFARE ANALYSIS OF TAX REFORMS by BOURGUIGNON, FRANÇOIS

“…The welfare analysis of tax reforms most often consists of comparing the post‐reform distribution of individual welfare with the pre‐reform distribution or…”
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Oligarchy, democracy, inequality and growth by Bourguignon, François, Verdier, Thierry

“…This paper analyses the dynamics of inequality, democratization and economic development in a political economy model of growth where education is both the…”
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