that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by …

unprecedented rates, resulting in large reductions in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more … development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …

and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in … Spain, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a … productivity after 1898 …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …