Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Bluhm R Author-Name: Crombrugghe D.P.I. de Author-Name: Szirmai A. Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT Title: The pace of poverty reduction - A fractional response approach Abstract: This working paper is part of the research programme on Institutions, Governance and Longterm Economic Growth, a partnership between the French Development Agency AFD and the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance Maastricht University UNUMerit. The research builds on the Institutional Profiles Database IPD, jointly developed by AFD and the French Ministry of the Economy since 2001. Keywords: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models, Discrete Regressors, Measurement and Analysis of Poverty, Economic Development, Economic Development, Human Resources, Human Development, Income Distribution, Migration; Classification-JEL: I32, C25, O10, O15 Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers Creation-Date: 2013 Number: 2013-051 File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-051.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 1198736 Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2013051