Showing 1 - 10 of 101
measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278239
Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363294
Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363564
This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365189
spending cuts and productivity improvements, tax reforms, and asset sales. We find that a policy that reduces the cost of …-targeted spending on infrastructure to deliver long run productivity improvements. Given New Zealands longer term growth challenge, any … fiscal efforts to stabilise the economy and avoid a more severe recession should have productivity at the centre of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363981
Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics have raised doubts about both the quality and sustainability of the increase in service sector activity and its implications for economic development. Using National Accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363516
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363635
The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple model of an economy in which growth is driven by a combination of exogenous technical change in agriculture as well as by a rising world demand for labor-intensive manufactured exports. We explore the relative roles of agricultural innovation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365231
Till date,conceptualisation of poverty in Bangladesh’s policy making is limited to income/consumption poverty where a … rise or fall of income/consumption above or below a pre-defined poverty line determines changes in poverty. To identify the … budgetary and fiscal measures which can be redesigned in a way that can significantly reduce poverty and ensure economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493301
Till date,conceptualisation of poverty in Bangladesh’s policy making is limited to income/consumption poverty where a … rise or fall of income/consumption above or below a pre-defined poverty line determines changes in poverty. To identify the … budgetary and fiscal measures which can be redesigned in a way that can significantly reduce poverty and ensure economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493309