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In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with …
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structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms …
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The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … statistical procedures in poor countries understate the rate of global poverty reduction, and overstate growth in the world … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in …
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measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …
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its imbalances from the perspective of analysis and the impact of growth on poverty and inequality. A limited number of …Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 1 China’s Miracle in Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Chapter 2 Explaining China … that economic growth, poverty reduction, equity, and environment and resource sustainability must be integrated into …
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growth, employment and poverty reduction in developing countries …This book is a collection of working papers, policy briefs and training modules, published by the International Poverty …
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This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and potential endogeneity of famine intensity, we exploit a novel source of variation in regional intensity of famine derived from...
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exertion and food intake -- and the underlying causes of obesity -- childhood and adult poverty, depression, and attitudes …
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-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures … important as the overall rate of growth in household incomes. Despite past progress in reducing ethnic inequality, the …
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This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation rates and test scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. We find that, on average, the program has no impact either on graduation rates or on Math and...
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