discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in …

foreign direct investment. Controlling for regressors commonly used in the growth literature, they find that measures of … economies. These findings suggest services policies should be considered more generally in empirical analyses of economic growth …

, whenever possible, provides evidence of the effects of these determinants on competitiveness, growth, and poverty in Latin … (growth), micro (productivity at the firm level), and poverty (the earnings of poor/rural people). In addition, the paper … services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural …

Since the industrial revolution, advances in science and technology have continuously accounted for most of the growth … to growth and welfare improvement has increased even further, especially with the globalization process which has been … characterized by exponential growth in exports of manufactured goods. This paper establishes the existence of a technology trap in …

and between countries. The statistical relationships between growth, inequality and poverty are discussed, as is the … correlation between inequality and the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Some of the recent literature on the drivers of …, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the …

in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … and poverty-reducing effects, even after imputations for the potential home earnings of migrants. …

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

reducing poverty and stimulating growth. Going beyond the large literature documenting the impact of female education on a … an empirical relationship between gender equality and poverty reduction and growth at the macro level has proven to be … credit) and women's decision-making power within households on poverty reduction and productivity at the individual and …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the … services sector was substantially more poverty-reducing than was growth in either agriculture or industry. Growth in industry …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to … tolerate modest increases in income inequality in exchange for faster growth-more so than richer and highly unequal countries. …