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The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile: Scope and limits
Solimano, Andres; Calderón Guajardo, Diego - 2017
Historically, Chile has been an economy dominated by mineral and agro-industrial products and subject to frequent external shocks particularly in copper prices. Since the 1980s, the authorities have developed various mechanisms to cope with these shocks and dampen their effects on the domestic...
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The financial inclusion agenda: Examining the role of conventional banks in deepening access to formal credit
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael - 2021
Using a unique district-level panel data set, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana. To purge potential endogeneity bias in the underlying relationship, we exploit a change in the policy environment of the Ghanaian banking system to instrument...
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Financial inclusion and nutrition among rural households in Rwanda
Swain, Ranjula Bali; Nsabimana, Aimable - 2023
We investigate if financial inclusion leads to improved nutrition in rural Rwanda, using Rwandan Integrated Household Living Conditions surveys (2013/14 and 2016/17). Our empirical evidence shows a robust positive impact of financial inclusion efforts undertaken by formal financial institutions,...
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Putting the financial system to work for the poor and SMEs
Osman, Abdul Magid; Osman, Djamila Pontes - 2020
that farm productivity has remained low and poverty levels are still high. The neoliberal doctrine in the economic sphere …
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Savings by and for the poor: A research review and agenda
Karlan, Dean; Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014
The poor can and do save, but often use formal or informal instruments that have high risk, high cost, and limited functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioural frictions. Undersaving can have important welfare consequences: variable consumption,...
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Socio-economic development in South Asia: The past 50 years
Osmani, Siddiqur Rahman - 2018
The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
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Understanding Mozambique's growth experience through an employment lens
Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015
. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household …
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COVID-19: Macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world
Addison, Tony; Sen, Kunal; Tarp, Finn - 2020
alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects …
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Industrialization in developing countries: Is it related to poverty reduction?
Erumban, Abdul Azeez; De Vries, Gaaitzen J. - 2021
This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC … contributions are used in a regression analysis, which indicates that poverty reduction is significantly related to structural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …
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Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction in developing countries: Recent global evidence
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2011
The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …
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