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Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries

Desai, Raj M.; Rudra, Nita - 2016

How do shifts in trade affect social protections for the poor? Although the fraction of the world's population …

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COVID-19 and global poverty : are LDCs being left behind?

Valensisi, Giovanni - 2020

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April 2020 growth forecasts. The analysis shows that the pandemic will have dramatic consequences, eroding many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction....

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Structural transformation in the world economy : on the significance of developing countries

Nayyar, Deepak - 2016

future implications. The increased economic significance of developing countries, reflected in their share of world output …

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Rethinking Asian Drama

Nayyar, Deepak - 2018

Gunnar Myrdal published Asian Drama in 1968, a work which made important analytical contributions to our understanding of development but was deeply pessimistic about Asia's future prospects. Since then, contrary to Myrdal's expectations, Asia's development has been remarkable, although...

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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 … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

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Global economic governance and economic policy : a personal perspective

Derviş, Kemal - 2015

The policy advice given by economists in international institutions is influenced by their prior academic work. In my case, applied general equilibrium work resulted both in a belief in the necessity of decentralized markets and in a distrust of their ability to be stable. A career in...

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Structural transformation and international trade : evidence from the China shock

Nedoncelle, Clément; Wolfersberger, Julien - 2023

the transformation of low- and middle-income economies out of agriculture. In our main specification industrialization …

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Extractives for development : ten main messages

Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2018

development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also …

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The political economy of the 'resource curse' : a development perspective

Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal - 2020

analysis although it is relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, as a significant number of the world poor live in …

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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?

Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...

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