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household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … is significant heterogeneity in the poverty impacts of trade, both across households and countries. This highlights the …
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progress in SDGs by 2030. Benin and Rwanda are presented in detail through case studies. The main lessons are: i) average … sources given the scale of additional spending, and iv) strong national ownership of SDGs is key and should be reflected in …
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eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with the specific goals of halving the proportions of both undernourished and malnourished … millions of families from the desperate cycle of hunger and poverty also had consequences for the environment. Roughly 72% of …Established by the United Nations in 2015 with a target date of 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide …
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Adopted in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were … challenges. However, most countries are not on pace to achieve the SDGs. The economic and human toll of the COVID-19 pandemic … stands to further delay action beyond the SDGs’ 2030 target date. Yet, viewed from another perspective, COVID-19 offers an …
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investment in higher education, thereby enhancing access and quality in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs … internationalization of education services, the role of trade agreements and their potential contribution to the SDGs have barely been … among policy objectives in support of the SDGs. …
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(MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It assesses the dramatic changes in the political, economic, and … business background from the early 2000s (shaping the MDGs) to the early 2010s (designing the SDGs). These changes rarely get … ignorance of the trade potential for a "better life" during the preparation of the SDGs (2013-2015). The paper also provides a …
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Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and … countries the key components of inclusive growth models, outcomes from these models, and the road ahead in the respective … role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …
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We use a unique data set for 115 countries, from 2000-18, and 5-year non-overlapping averages to explore the impact of technical assitance on revenue mobilization. To the authors' knowledge this is the first such effort to determine a direct relationship between technical assistance and the...
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This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines … claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …
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between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U … relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. Secondly, we examine the issue of the existence of …
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