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poverty reducti …
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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 det
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Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed …
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This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a .new leftist. government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly...
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between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region …
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A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …
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Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a .hybrid. approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimen
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of the population below the poverty line. Socio-economic impacts are much larger during major drought years, thus …
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This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …
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insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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