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Is there a Brazilian model of development? : are there lessons for countries in Africa?
Amann, Edmund; Barrientos, Armando - 2014
Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the last decade. It has been suggested that Brazil's unexpected successes are the outcome of a new model of development. The paper argues that Brazil's unique combination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414801
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The political economy of the 'resource curse' : a development perspective
Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020
This paper reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less analysis although it is relevant to the Sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299602
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The individual poverty incidence of growth
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2019
evaluate the dynamics of the poverty impact of growth in Indonesia, by comparing the 1993-2000, 2000-07, and 2007-14 growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003840
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Pro-poor growth in Indonesia : challenging the pessimism of Myrdal's Asian Drama
Timmer, Charles Peter - 2018
This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism … Indonesian economy, the chapter explains the policy approach that resulted in three decades of rapid, pro-poor growth during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913054
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Benign growth : structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand
Warr, Peter George; Suphannachart, Waleerat - 2020
Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry's gross domestic product share increased, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203791
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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China
Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020
economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978 … decline in the late 2000s. We analyse the political economy that determined the inclusiveness of the structural transformation …. As the economy further transitions into services, the tension between structural transformation and its inclusiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181039
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?
Addison, Tony - 2015
manufacturing and service clusters, Africa is yet to follow East Asia in integrating with the global economy in ways that add value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396968
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New patterns of structural change and effects on inclusive development : a case study of South Africa and Brazil
Greenstein, Joshua - 2015
place of households in the economy as reflected by employment sector and geographical location, and the extent to which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465459
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Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda
Andrews, Matt; Bategeka, Lawrence - 2013
This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that are 'best in class' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192401