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Thailand's development strategy and growth performance
Warr, Peter - 2011
dramatically, but economic inequality has increased. Economic progress has been reflected in very significant improvement in non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333039
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Lessons from post-colonial Malaysian economic development
S., Jomo K.; Hui, Wee Chong - 2010
Malaysian economic development has been shaped by public policy in response to changing national and external conditions. Public investments peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s, until the policy reversals driven by sovereign debt concerns and new policy ideology fads. Foreign investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280099
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Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi's poverty puzzle
Pauw, Karl; Beck, Ulrik; Mussa, Richard - 2014
Disappointment was widespread when rapid economic growth since 2005, coupled with a smallholder-targeted fertilizer subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494207
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Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda: A broad perspective
Verpoorten, Marijke - 2014
This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494211
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Poverty, inequality, and prices in post-apartheid South Africa
Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Oosthuizen, Morné - 2014
Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This … paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494214
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Utility-consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001 - 10: Snapshots in the presence of multiple economy-wide shocks
Stifel, David; Razafimanantena, Tiaray; Rakotomanana, Faly - 2014
We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Because two major political crises occurred between the survey periods, the snapshots of national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494217
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Growth, poverty, and inequality: The case study of Cameroon
Fambon, Samuel; McKay, Andy; Timnou, Joseph-Pierre; … - 2014
date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis … of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494219
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Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian trap
Grimm, Michael; Wetta, Claude; Nikiema, Aude - 2014
Burkina Faso has experienced quite significant aggregate growth over the past two decades, but that growth has not been transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth combined with the absence of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494221
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The centre cannot hold: Patterns of polarization in Nigeria
Clementi, Fabio; Dabalen, Andrew L.; Molini, Vasco; … - 2014
Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in time. The present paper tries to overcome this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494223
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Monetary inequality among households in Togo: An illustration based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient using the Shapley value approach
Noglo, Yawo Agbényégan - 2014
This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among … decomposition of the Gini index through Shapley's approach, within-group inequality is greater than between-group inequality. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494227