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-microeconomic assessment. The results indicate that HIV/AIDS greatly reduces annual economic growth, mainly by lowering the long-term rate of … technical change. However, the impacts on income poverty are small, and inequality is reduced by HIV/AIDS. This is because high … unemployment among low-income households minimizes the economic costs of increased mortality. In contrast, slower economic growth …
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this paper support a comprehensive petroleum subsidy reform in Yemen. Economic growth is projected to accelerate between 0 …, especially for the poor. Outcomes of alternative reform scenarios range from an increase in poverty of 2 to 6 percentage points …, industrial, and service value chains, which should encourage private sector led and job creating growth in the medium term. …
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"We use two rounds of surveys, taken in 2000 and 2008 in the Zhili Township children's garment cluster in Zhejiang Province, to examine in depth the evolution of this industrial cluster. Firm size has grown on average in terms of output and employment, and increasing divergence in firm sizes has...
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, the relationship between windfall profits, growth, and households' welfare is less straightforward than what the simple … both productivity-enhancing investments and an oil fund is crucial to achieving shared growth and macroeconomic stability …
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"Township-village enterprises (TVEs) were a major engine of China's rapid rural industrialization in the past three decades. TVEs also played a key role in fostering entrepreneurship and served as a major stepping-stone for institutional changes when legal protections of private property rights...
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"It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction. This paper argues that any … changes in poverty situation attributed to those who adopt new agricultural technology (treatment group) without a … effects of new agricultural technology on poverty reduction by employing the “double difference” method on data collected in …
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The recent global food and financial crises have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty …
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statistically reliable results for poverty analysis. Estimates of the wife's income separately provided by the husband and wife … conclusions on the determinants of poverty. …
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Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC's) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank 2006)....
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Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises … concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a … growth—not the level—is currently constraining the rate of poverty reduction in Tanzania. Most importantly, agricultural …
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