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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...
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Keep it real : measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries
Beck, Ulrik - 2015
caused by (i) differences in the composition of consumption over the income distribution coupled with differential inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411136
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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition : the Mozambican experience 2008/09
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012
inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a … higher inflation rate for basic food products. Stunting and wasting malnutrition measures are mostly insensitive to the … inflation rate. The very high food inflation during 2008/09 was responsible for an extra 39,000 moderately underweight and 24 …
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - 2014
relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …
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Indices of social development and their application to Africa
Haan, Arjan de; Foa, Roberto - 2014
This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement. Development practitioners worldwide increasingly recognize the importance of informal institutions, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414808
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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China
Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020
In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978. Economic activities have shifted from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181039
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Structural transformation and inclusive growth : Kuznets' "developer's dilemma" in Indonesia
Kim, Kyunghoon; Mungsunti, Arriya; Sumner, Andrew; … - 2020
We focus on special characteristics of the manufacturing sector, in terms of employment generation and productivity growth, that enable the rapid, resilient economic catch-up of developing countries. We consider the 'developer's dilemma' and the relationship between manufacturing value added or...
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Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko; Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; … - 2020
This study examines the structural transformation-inclusive growth nexus for Ghana. The data cover the post-independence period for Ghana and are phased into three periods: the post-independence period to the start of the economic recovery programme (ERP) and structural adjustment programme...
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Agriculture and trade opportunities for Tanzania : past volatility and future climate change
Ahmed, Syud Amer; Diffenbaugh, Noah S.; Hertel, Thomas W.; … - 2011
increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below …. -- climate change ; volatility ; Tanzania ; trade ; export ban ; agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615615
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When unstable, growth is less pro-poor
Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachais, Catherine - 2010
Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662270