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poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither … conflicts. Among the strategic elements that have contributed to reduced poverty are: an outward-oriented strategy of export … in reducing poverty. Growth can be substantial if the policy and institutional environment is right. …
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many developing and developed economies. This is disturbing since little progress can be made in poverty reduction when … growth, and therefore poverty reduction through growth. This paper finds evidence of a concave relationship between …
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The paper empirically investigates, in the context of African countries, the determinants of income distribution and inequality, the effect of inequality on economic growth, and the channels through which inequality affects growth. Data for 35 countries over different periods in the last four...
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trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty … is scrutinized, link by link. The paper then moves on to examine other channels in the globalization-poverty nexus that …
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This study traces the interactions between economic growth, income inequality and consumption poverty in a sample of … that experiences have varied: some countries have seen sharp falls in income poverty; others have witnessed marked … conclusions. First, agricultural market liberalization has been conducive to reductions in rural poverty. Second, market …
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All of the recent empirical work on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth has used inequality data that are not consistently measured. This paper argues that this is inappropriate and shows that the significant negative correlation often found between income inequality...
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This paper reviews Finnish economic history during the ‘long’ twentieth century with a special emphasis on policies for equity and growth. We argue that Finland developed from a poor, vulnerable, and conflict-prone country to a modern economy in part through policies geared at both growth...
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The paper presents a model in which credit-constrained firms might delay the adoption of new and more productive technologies because of the very high external financing costs they face. Our point of departure is that the efficiency of the banking system can have a profound impact on real...
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the IMF/World Bank take the poverty as a residual issue. Hence, earlier anti-poverty programmes in Pakistan reached a … distribution. – globalization ; liberalization ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; structural adjustment ; Pakistan …While globalization is viewed as a key to future economic development, it is also argued that it increases poverty …
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This paper reports levels of income inequality and poverty in four Central and Eastern European countries: the Czech … inequality and relative poverty rates, using both local and national relative poverty lines, for the most recent waves of data …
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