, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, Vietnam has achieved impressive progress … towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during this time. This paper sheds light on some elements of Vietnam … remaining SDGs in Vietnam will be a challenge, with total annual additional spending needs in the 5 subsectors estimated at 7 …

pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed …

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …

This paper measures the extent to which South African economic growth is an engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa …. Results based on panel data estimation for 47 African countries over four decades suggest that South African growth has a … substantial positive impact on growth in the rest of Africa, even after controlling for other growth determinants. The estimates …

Estimates of a supply-side model of the nonprimary sectors, in which particular attention has been paid to modeling key …