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productivity angle.In looking at a set of high-growth economies of the past, the Growth Report 2008 identified common … total factor productivity to growth is on a declining path.The structural shift of the Ghanaian economy into services and … marginally contributes to labor productivity growth.Second, concentration of economic activity in natural resources increase …
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This note takes stock of productivity trends of the Albanian non-agricultural private sector using granular firm …-level data. To understand better the sources of jobs and productivity growth, this note analyzes firm-level data from the … employment and productivity gaps remain. Between 2006 and 2016 the country has seen a doubling of its formal private sector …
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It has long been recognized that poverty is multidimensional, comprising not only insufficient income but also deprivations in access to basic services, the quality of living conditions, personal security, and other aspects of well-being. Since 2010 there has been rapid growth in the development...
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driven by gains in labor productivity, though most of the productivity growth came from increases in within …-sector productivity rather than from reallocation effects. This implies that most of the labor movement occurred from agriculture toward … other sectors with low productivity. Agriculture did not contribute to poverty reduction as it had in the previous decade …
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Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods and services. However, important aspects of well-being might not be fully captured through monetary measures alone. Multidimensional poverty...
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unreliable. Limited local expertise in air-quality measurement presents additional challenges. These shortcomings can undermine a …
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Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, the vast majority of farmers are still disconnected from local, regional, and global markets. To reduce poverty and support inclusive...
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Zanzibar recorded an important decline in urban poverty, while rural poverty did not change, and poverty increased on the island of Pemba Basic needs poverty and extreme poverty both declined by 4.5 and 1 percentage points, respectively, at the national level in Zanzibar since 2010. Consumption...
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Small area estimates of poverty and inequality statistics, through survey-to-census imputation that lets consumption be estimated for each and every household in a census, are useful for at least three reasons. First, they can help improve the effectiveness of public spending, by targeting to...
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