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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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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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The world's two new middles : growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case

Sumner, Andrew - 2016

This paper discusses the emergence of two new middles since the Cold War, namely middle-income countries and people living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that although there has been substantial economic growth,...

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Ethnic fragmentation, public good provision, and inequality in India, 1988 - 2012

Chadha, Nishant; Nandwani, Bharti - 2016

national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in … inequality in India but only since 2004. We also document an increase in between group (or horizontal) inequality over the entire … period. We then investigate the impact of ethnic fragmentation and public good provision on inequality. We hypothesize that …

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Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges

Aryeetey, Ernest; Baah-Boateng, William - 2015

, growth has been accompanied by substantial reduction in poverty, albeit increasing inequality. This development is explained …

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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship

Leyaro, Vincent - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … inequality can be considered a proxy for 'governance quality', the paper also tests for a threshold in inequality for the effect …

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Inequality of opportunity during the great recession in Uganda

Brunori, Paolo; Palmisanoy, Flaviana; Peraginez, Vito - 2015

and infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. We show that despite a reduction in … the real value of the household consumption and a surge in outcome inequality between 2009/10 and 2010/11, the consumption … dynamic appears to alleviate inequality of opportunity in Uganda. …

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