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rapid economy-wide growth, poverty reduction and structural transformation at early stages of development. Yet over the last … that urban bias remains a persistent and paramount obstacle to sustained growth and poverty reduction in the least …
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economic development in Nigeria. Based on empirical study, it has been observed that poverty is multifaceted and its … growth shall be regressed on poverty level in Nigeria. This will create an assertion whether Nigeria needs a systematic … reinforcement of the microfinance mechanism to propagate a soothing trend for poverty reduction and economic growth. …
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic development of Pakistan. A composite index of physical infrastructure has been constructed through Principal Component Analysis. This has been done by taking into account three different dimensions of...
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The purposes of this study were to present the current situation of poverty, economic growth, and economic development … for five selected countries in Latin America and to examine the relationship between poverty, economic growth, and … model suggested that economic development is more effective and preferable than economic growth in eradicating of poverty …
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Economic growth is typically recognized as the effective tool in eradicating of poverty. Unfortunately, many countries … investigate the new tool aimed at reducing poverty through log-linear model and to estimate the impact of exogenous macroeconomic … shock occurred in every sector on poverty through SAM multiplier. The result reveals that poverty is not sensitive to …
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scarcity of productive assets like land in the mountain region in Uttaranchal women’s participation in the workforce is very …
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Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...
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Abstract This article is a part of a twin study. Drawing on the available evidence, in this paper the author examines the cost of compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures for poor countries with reference to Africa. He shows that the burden of cost of compliance is entirely on...
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The aim of this paper is to assess the non-monetary effects of the euro accession of Poland. The literature identifies two channels that potentially may affect the economy: (i) diminishing of investment risk premia through lower interest rates and cost of capital services and (ii) trade creation...
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n this paper, we analyze the consequences of biotechnology innovations in the United States forest sector (logging) by modeling technology transfer embodied in trade flows and its absorption. A seven-region, seven-traded-commodity version of a dynamic computable general equilibrium model is used...
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