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“Accelerated Growth Strategy” (Stratégie de Croissance Accélérée in French or SCA) in the fight against poverty. We start by an … analysis of the macroeconomic foundations of growth in Senegal and then examine the evolution of labor market and social … indicators over the period under study. We show that growth achievements did not meet the targets set by the SCA. Despite the …
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(english) Since the 1994 devaluation, growth has been quite strong in Mali (about 5% p.a. on average), but much weaker … in terms of GDP per person (about 2.6% p.a.) due to a very high index of fecundity. Growth is still very unstable, due to … a surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro …
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Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim of reducing poverty by half … growth strategy is not really in accordance with the Senegalese Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper …
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Macroeconomic data on 45 countries are combined with microeconomic data on 4 case-study countries to reveal significant differences in the levels of education attained under the different colonial powers in Africa during the colonial period. In 1960, former British colonies exhibited higher...
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European Enlightenment thinkers were right in stressing the political dimension of inequality, rather than referring to … dedicated to the politics of inequality on the one hand, to political inequalities on the other hand …
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(english) The aim of this paper is to realize an in-depth analysis of the growth and poverty interactions in Syria …. One of the main tools of the pro-poor growth literature used is the index developed by Bibi (2010), which takes into …-2004 period growth was not equitable at both national and regional levels. When the objective of halving poverty in 2015 is used …
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(English) How has poverty changed during the 1997-99 period, when the Peruvian economic performance deteriorated seriously under the negative impact of the international financial crisis? The answer to this question has traditionally relied on cross-section comparisons of poverty indicators. In...
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What is the kind of institutions that affect economic inequalities? Using a database on national income inequality for …
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15 % and 50 % and that inequality levels in both countries are nearer to level of countries like Brazil than it is said …
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. These results suggest that the spatial « inequality » dimension should be added to analyses on income and poverty transition …
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