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conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the …
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In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote … percentage points faster than the mean, the World Bank's poverty goal is achieved with the global poverty falling to below 3 …
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The paper proposes an approach to understand the relationship between inequality and economic growth obtained by … dynamics of specific groups of the population and to infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity … recent crisis suffered by Italy from both the income inequality and opportunity inequality perspectives. …
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countries, and explore new approaches going forward. In an increasingly globalized world where fighting poverty is not only a …
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Thailand is one of the most successful developing countries. After decades of rapid growth, the economy rebounded quickly from the 1997-98 Asian crisis and is set to continue its expansion into the future. Nevertheless, there are doubts about the resilience of the Thai economy. The country...
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Analysis of decade-long growth rates in all countries shows a striking regularity: episodes of rapid growth are limited largely to a middle range of initial income; neither very poor nor very rich countries experienced rapid growth. Episodes of negative growth are limited to low and middle-income...
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The author presents a simple endogenous growth model (with two types of capital) that shows the sizable long-run effects on growth of distortionary policies. The model applies to many different types of distortions of relative prices common in developing countries - for example, price controls,...
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Using the most recent purchasing power parity data for 44 sub-Saharan African countries, this paper examines the characteristics of long run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors investigate the following issues: cross-country income structure, income convergence, the country level...
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these countries, representing major world regions and accounting for close to 80 percent of the developing world's GDP, they …
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technologies and other practices new to the country, if not the world. The emphasis for assimilation theorists is on innovation and …
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