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Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence : South Africa 2007-2020
Hausmann, Ricardo; Sturzenegger, Federico; Goldstein, … - 2022
This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007- 2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming decade. After remarkable economic growth in 1997-07, South Africa's progress slowed dramatically in 2009 with the global financial crisis. Real GDP growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816459
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2015
In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth was not all that mattered; external factors were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384085
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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics
Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022
What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for … interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality might come in many forms: (top) incomes, wages, wealth, land, or … potential for growth to 'take off'. We consider causality running from inequality to growth; hence, the Kuznets hypothesis is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816433
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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?
Addison, Tony - 2015
been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396968
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Mozambique : off-track or temporarily sidelined?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511245
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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andrew D.; … - 2015
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 agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528633
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Ghana : Poverty reduction over thirty years
McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015
period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531063
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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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The structural anatomy and institutional architecture of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Thorbecke, Erik - 2014
growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242056