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undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …
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Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …
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The Union of the Comoros’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRGS) paper reports that the government⠅
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for private enterprise and sectoral strategies; and poverty reduction and social protection programs. Economic growth in …
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This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …
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) during 2004 in Albania. The NSSED established a multiyear plan to combat poverty and strengthen governance. The main …
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poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …
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impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …
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This Joint Staff Advisory Note provides IMF staff advice on key priorities for strengthening Bangladesh’s poverty … that the strategic agenda of the National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction (NSAPR), built on the policy triangle … poverty reduction. …
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We document the evolution of poverty and inequality across Indian states during the recent period of rapid growth (2004 …-09), and examine the role of growth and distribution in reducing poverty. Robust economic growth has been a major driver of … poverty reduction and inclusiveness in India. We explore the role of economic policies and macrofinancial conditions in …
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