that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …, notably infrastructure and enterprise finance, have yet to be resolved. Agricultural productivity remains low. And without new …

living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …

's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …

. Economic activities have shifted from the low-productivity agricultural sector to the high-productivity industrial sector and … its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

have been associated with persistent challenges such as lack of diversification, poor working conditions, low productivity …

. Over the decades, the economy has suffered from high unemployment, slow poverty reduction, and stagnant investment. Why … unemployment, poverty, and underinvestment? This paper argues that the Philippines' poor growth performance is to be attributed to … low productivity growth due to slow industrialization, especially in manufacturing. The chronic problems of high …