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 provides estimates of potential output growth in post-apartheid South Africa using both time trend … techniques and a production function approach which indicates a potential growth rate of around 3 percent. The implied output gap … macroeconomic policy. Growth accounting and regression analysis suggest that an increase in trend GDP growth after the end of …

district where a dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located … downstream from the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … implications, and has, in aggregate, increased poverty"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

Poverty has remained widespread in Mozambique, mostly on account of the prevalent war situation. This paper provides a …

of Friedrich Nietzsche, that ties poverty and inequality to unethical behavior of the strong toward the weak. The paper … contributes to an understanding of why poverty and inequality have remained entrenched in some societies in spite of repeated …

After impressive growth in the 2000s, China's productivity has more recently stagnated. We use firm-level data to …'s business dynamism. We show that (i) the revenue share of young firms has declined, (ii) the life-cycle growth of young firms … relative to older incumbents has slowed, (iii) weaker life-cycle growth can be explained by slower productivity growth and …

growth could be lower for longer, with a setback to development. Post-pandemic reforms thus become even more important …, especially with constrained scope for fiscal and monetary stimuli. Reforms could boost per capita growth by an additional 0 ….3-1.3 percentage points, relative to the 1.9 percent average since 2010. Such growth would reduce per capita income doubling time from …

the result of low TFP and thus GDP growth-not the cause …