unprecedented decline in growth? This is done by analyzing the 2007 Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) data at the level of the … seven main industrial zones of Punjab. The World Bank report based on this data had analyzed the impediments and constraints … hamper industrial growth and productivity. This industrial zone analysis is followed by an analysis of a pilot survey of 100 …

and urban household income to decrease and has thus slowed down household consumption growth. The provision of broader … households more security for spending that could reduce the high savings rate and help achieve a balanced growth path in the long …

-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. The analysis uses survey …Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross … industry growth in other provinces. [BREAD Working paper no. 399]. …

Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF and World Bank, reduces the growth … elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but the author find no evidence for a direct effect of structural … adjustment on growth. Instead, the poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in …

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … capita income (NSDP) growth and Gini coefficients, estimated from the data on household consumer expenditure (taken as a …

corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. [BREAD Working Paper No. 404]. …