African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …This paper is essentially autobiographical and describes Erik Thorbecke's journey through the history of development … professional career as a development economist and his research interactions with major contributors to the discipline. The next …

In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … on a large global panel of countries over the last decades which includes information on economic and human development … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …

entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …

poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …

consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …