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high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …
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to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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human capital, but they had high employment rates, and over time they closed their initial large earnings gap with other …
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This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …
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inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …
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preferred tax scenario reduces national absorption and employment by 1.2 and 0.6 per cent, respectively, by 2025. However, if … South Africa's trading partners unilaterally impose a carbon consumption tax then welfare and employment losses exceed those … of a domestic carbon tax. Border tax adjustments improve welfare and employment while maintaining the same emissions …
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of growth, inflation, employment, investment, balance of payments, and the … acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. …
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We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...
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