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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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authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy … growth and poverty reduction in Niger. This paper--a product of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management 3, Africa Technical …
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evaluation of the impact of a series of pro-growth policies on inequality and headcount poverty. He relies on a large … the policies under consideration on growth, inequality, and poverty. The author's findings indicate that regardless of … their impact on inequality, pro-growth policies lead to lower poverty levels in the long run. However, he also finds …
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. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in wealth, power, and status have efficiency costs. These variables …
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leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. To determine the effect of globalization on growth, poverty … translates on average into proportionate increases in incomes of the poor. Absolute poverty in the globalizing developing … the view that globalization leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. This paper—a product of …
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Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...
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"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …
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"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …
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