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Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio …-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are …-2011), we identify the causal effect of intergenerational mobility on household expenditure’s future growth. We find that …
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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as …
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Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to … the promotion of a stronger and sustainable economic growth in Cameroon. …
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This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces … growth. However, when we identify an inequality threshold, we find that inequality is positively associated with growth if …
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An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …
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looking forward to a much better future - in terms of both growth and human development - than was deemed possible at the time …
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outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …
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relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …
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Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …
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