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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - 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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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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Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique? Accounting for underreported consumption
Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi - 2017
capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated. We address upper tier consumption … category upwardly adjusts upper tier consumption. Using scaled consumption, we find evidence that inequality in Mozambique is … underestimated and that inequality began increasing in 2002 rather than 2008 as the official numbers suggest.6000 un …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943756
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Explaining poverty evolution: The case of Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Jones, E. Samuel; … - 2011
approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …
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