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In order to track progress in MDG1 and explicitly link growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, several measures of … ‘pro-poor growth’ have been proposed in the literature and used in applied academic and policy work. These measures …, particularly the ones derived from the growth incidence curve, allow a much more detailed assessment of the distributional impact …
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trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth …The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and …
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This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …
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This paper revisits the pollution haven hypothesis in the context of Pakistan by offering a systematic analysis of its trade and production patterns. Using bilateral trade statistics from 1975-2003, we test the hypotheses that Pakistan’s net exports of pollutionintensive products have...
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By exploring the export performances and specialization patterns of China and India, we assess their trade competitiveness and complementarity vis-à-vis each other as well as with the rest of the world. Our analysis indicates that (i) India faces tough competition from China in the third...
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horizontal or inter-group inequality, with both an ethnic and caste dimension, is highly relevant in explaining the Nepalese … Nepal is significantly explained by the degree of inequalities. – Nepal ; Maoist insurgency ; spatial inequality … ; horizontal inequality …
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Schumepterian growth theory stresses the role of structural change in long run growth. Countries which increase the … less dynamic growth performance since the 1980s. …
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liberalization measures that have been put in place. One of the outcomes of this improved performance is the growth of innovations in … takes a critical look at the available quantitative evidence on the growth of knowledge or technology-based entrepreneurship …
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This paper argues for an ‘ancient’ institutional school, predating Thorstein Veblen’s ‘old’ institutionalism. In this view, going back as far as the thirteenth century, institutions tended to be seen as specific to a mode of production. Here both institutions and development itself are...
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