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and poverty reduction. The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 2 makes a brief review of the economic … section argues that the superior economic performance (in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction) of the authoritarian …
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poverty during 1996-2006. Using the National Socioeconomic Characterization panel survey data, we adopt the Chaudhuri et al …
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implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest … important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined significantly more than it declined in …
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implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest …-capita income. A particularly important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined …
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Indian economic development in the recent period has attracted both favourable and unfavourable attention abroad. The development community including academics and activists regards the record of the Indian economy during the last twenty years as being extremely good by international standards....
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The purposes of this study were to present the current situation of poverty, economic growth, and economic development … for five selected countries in Latin America and to examine the relationship between poverty, economic growth, and … model suggested that economic development is more effective and preferable than economic growth in eradicating of poverty …
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The majority of African countries, included Senegal, continue to face widespread poverty. The objective of poverty …, this paper examines the linkage between disaggregated government expenditures and poverty using the most recent poverty … suitable, complete and reliable way of measuring poverty, to overcome the limitations of one-dimensional framework, and better …
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Peru is in the process of negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA which would eliminate trade concessions on most goods and services. This paper analyses the potential impacts of such extensive trade liberalisation for Peru. The focus is on possible short-term welfare impacts and...
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This paper uses survey data collected from Kalaymyo, a small urban city in North West Myanmar, to characterize firms and analyze the constraints limiting their growth. The level of firm ownership is very high but most firms are small, informal, operated out of the home, earning low income and...
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We examine the relationship between growth in labor productivity and poverty reduction through the lens of changes in … the structure of output and employment. Combining state-level data from India on poverty with state-level data on output … productivity sector is an important channel through which increases in aggregate productivity translate into poverty reduction. We …
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