Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2009, Global

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TABLE 4. Determinants of Pro-Poor Policies, Random-Effects Regressions (dependent variable: expected decline in poverty attributable to spending policies) (1) Mean income

⫺0.5507

(2) ⫺0.5566

(3) ⫺0.5331

(4) ⫺0.5324

(5) ⫺0.552

(6) ⫺0.5337

(7) ⫺0.4812

(8) ⫺0.492

(9) ⫺0.4779

(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

⫺0.4901

⫺0.5281

⫺0.5184

⫺0.4862

⫺0.5396

(0.0272)*** (0.0286)*** (0.0268)*** (0.0258)*** (0.0335)*** (0.0257)*** (0.0310)*** (0.0293)*** (0.0308)*** (0.0293)*** (0.0242)*** (0.0282)*** (0.0280)*** (0.0289)*** Trade/GDP

0.0009

0.0011

0.001

0.001

0.001

0.0014

0.0014

0.0015

0.0014

0.0011

0.0012

0.0012

0.0014

(0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0004)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)*** (0.0003)***

(15) ⫺0.5468 (0.0287)*** 0.0011 (0.0003)***

Liquid liabilities/ GDP

⫺0.0007 (0.0004)*

Gini coefficient

⫺0.0007

⫺0.0007

⫺0.0007

⫺0.0007

⫺0.0007

⫺0.0007

⫺0.0007

⫺0.0007

⫺0.0009

⫺0.0006

⫺0.001

⫺0.0011

(0.0003)**

(0.0004)*

(0.0004)**

(0.0004)*

(0.0004)*

(0.0004)*

(0.0004)*

(0.0004)**

(0.0004)**

(0.0004)

(0.0004)**

0.0031

0.0031

0.0029

0.0022

0.0021

0.0023

0.0023

0.0028

0.0022

0.0015

0.0002

(0.0004)** 0.0001

(0.0014)**

(0.0013)**

(0.0013)**

(0.0017)

(0.0017)

(0.0019)

(0.0018)

(0.0013)**

(0.0014)

(0.0016)

(0.0013)

(0.0012)

Percent of urban population

0.0013 (0.0008)

Democracy (polity)

0.0013 (0.0008)

Economic freedom

0.0434 (0.0364)

Executive constraints

0.003 (0.0080)

Expropriation risk

⫺0.0197 (0.0166)

Degree of capitalism

⫺0.0056 (0.0157) (continued)


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