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The great transformation 1989 - 2029 : could It have been better? ; will It be better?

Kołodko, Grzegorz W. - 2010

Over 1.8 billion people, from Central Europe to East Asia, have been involved in the great systemic transformation to market economy, civic society and democracy. The process has brought mixed fruits. The diversification of the current situation is a result of both the legacy from the past and...

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Tax revenues in transition countries : structural changes and their policy implications

Khujamkulov, Ismoil - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

Changes in the tax structure and category of taxes clearly matter when it comes to initiating tax policies. This paper employs data from a sample of 33 transitional countries over the period 1991-2014. It finds that, in a particular transitional country, the higher the national income, the...

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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?

Addison, Tony - 2015

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

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Mozambique : off-track or temporarily sidelined?

Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in...

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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andrew D.; … - 2015

After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....

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Ghana : Poverty reduction over thirty years

McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015

period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?

Sumner, Andrew - 2013

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...

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The structural anatomy and institutional architecture of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Thorbecke, Erik - 2014

growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears …

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Another look at foreign aid

Ranis, Gustav - 2013

The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...

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Dimensions of African inequality

Bigsten, Arne - 2014

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

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