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health care makes this study to examine the impact of crude oil, natural gas and agriculture output on inclusive growth in … Lag suggests that crude oil and natural gas production insignificantly impact inclusive growth while agriculture output is … growth spread in Nigeria whereas the agriculture resource is critical for inclusive growth. It is important to focus on …
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combined with the absence of major technological change in agriculture and any significant structural transformation of the …
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Disappointment was widespread when rapid economic growth since 2005, coupled with a smallholder-targeted fertilizer subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011,...
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The role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than non-agriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … headcount poverty in low-income and resource-rich countries (including those in sub-Saharan Africa), at least when societies are …
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Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia's success … East and South East Asia and asks: what can other developing countries learn from Asia's success, if anything? The study … developing nations of today cannot ignore the rise of Asia and the study identifies useful insights from the Asian experience …
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deceleration. This questions the postulate of the epicentre of urbanization shifting to Asia. It also lends credence to the thesis … attract global and domestic capital into cities, governments would not interfere with 'elitist interests'. Asia, thus, is … outside agriculture, many of the large countries may, however, promote the small and medium towns that have unfortunately …
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This paper is a short history of the Indian economy since 1968. India today is a changed country from what it was half a century ago, when Myrdal published his Asian Drama. The stranglehold of low growth has been broken, its population below the poverty line has fallen markedly, and India has...
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This paper provides a synthesis of the four papers on the Latin American and Caribbean economies: Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic. It focuses on the following themes: macroeconomic stabilization and fiscal challenges, poverty and inequality, and the use of natural resources...
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Argentina experienced a decline in the early years of the 2000s, from 2000 to 2002, in GDP and in most labour market indicators, followed by improvements in nearly all of them, tracing out a U-shaped pattern. The international crisis of 2008 impacted negatively only on the unemployment rate and...
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Between 2000 and 2013, Colombia experienced rapid economic growth. The country suffered a slowdown at the beginning of the period and during the international crisis of 2008, but during both slowdowns, the growth rate never turned negative. Most labour market indicators improved and followed the...
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