The Role of Education and Income in Poverty Alleviation: A Cross-Country Analysis
Janjua, Pervez Zammurad; & Kamal, Usman Ahmad. (2011). The Role of Education and Income in Poverty Alleviation: A Cross-Country Analysis. Lahore Journal of Economics, 16(1), 143-172.
Janjua, Pervez Zammurad; & Kamal, Usman Ahmad. (2011). The Role of Education and Income in Poverty Alleviation: A Cross-Country Analysis. Lahore Journal of Economics, 16(1), 143-172.
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The existing literature on education and poverty considers mostly primary data from an income point of view. However, the benefits of education vary from a direct income effect to positive externalities, which can help reduce poverty. This paper uses panel data for 40 developing countries for the period 1999 to 2007, and estimates coefficients by applying the random effect generalized least squares (GLS) technique. The study concludes, first, that income growth plays a moderately positive role in alleviating poverty, but that income distribution does not play a key role in poverty alleviation in the sample overall. Second, it concludes that education is the most significant contributor to poverty alleviation.
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Janjua, Pervez Zammurad
Kamal, Usman Ahmad
2011
Lahore Journal of Economics
16
1
143-172
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