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This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per capita income suggests a positive impact of growth on urban poverty, although the … period 1985–99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the …
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growth strategy. …
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We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The …
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Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset …
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I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in economic performance, which has recently been postulated by Acemoglu et al. (2001) and others. My estimates show that the reported missing direct performance effects of a measure of...
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income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future …
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-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …
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