positive effect on growth as well as education and health outcomes …

with an increase in poverty and, in some cases, income inequality. The provison of targeted safety nets and the protection …. These crises affect poverty and the distribution of income through a variety of channels: slowdowns in economic activity … incidence of poverty and income distribution, and discusses policy options that can be considered by governments in the …

This paper examines developments in Albania’s income distribution and poverty during the transition to a market … consumption data, however, a large decline in urban real incomes is implausible. Poverty in both the urban and the rural …

due to overvaluation and higher volatility of the real exchange rate lower growth. Regarding the effect of undervaluation … of the exchange rate on economic growth, the evidence is mixed and inconclusive. However, there is no evidence in the … literature that Dutch disease reduces overall economic growth. Policy responses should aim at adequately managing the boom and …

growth models for developing countries typically make no distinction between the private and public components of investment …. This paper sheds some light on this important issue by formulating a simple growth model that separates the effects of …, and the results support the notion that private investment has a larger direct effect on growth than does public …