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-financed targeted transfers more effectively reduce headcount poverty and inequality with macroeconomic repercussions similar to those …
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In many developing countries, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will require significant increases in expenditures on social services and in foreign assistance. It will also require careful planning of the sector allocation and sequencing of public spending. Especially...
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real exchange appreciation, while domestic financing can crowd out the private sector and slow poverty reduction. Spending … lower poverty elasticity of growth. …
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The authors propose a "bottom up" approach to link public investment programs with a class of macro models recently developed to quantify Strategy Papers for Human Development (SPAHD) in low-income countries. The methodology involves establishing constant-price projections of investment outlays...
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poverty. But they did not create a legalized institutional regime, in which precise obligations would be delegated to specific … the causes and remedies of global poverty. Their formulation and implementation should also draw on national institutions …
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development indicators, including poverty reduction, would be positive. However, if most additional resources are from domestic …
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explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible. …
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The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate … simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of … development. They then use these models to assess the empirical relevance of poverty traps and their consequences for policy. The …
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for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …
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Empirical evidence indicates that in many developing regions, the extreme poor in more marginal land areas form a "residual" pool of rural labor. Structural transformation in such developing economies depends crucially on labor and land use decisions of these most-vulnerable populations located...
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