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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 … equality and poverty reduction. The interaction of human rights with official development assistance and trade flows shows that …
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. -- income instability ; poverty ; inequality ; economic growth ; growth elasticity of poverty ; poverty trap …, 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 microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel …
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-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The …The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …
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alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … deficit and debt ratios. This paper discusses these macroeconomic dimensions, focusing on the developing world. The paper …
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. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty …Poverty-growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process … and space. Poverty-growth semi-elasticities provide a more robust measure of the responsiveness of poverty to growth. …
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much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled …
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This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables, and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence. In the early stage of economic development, the gain from income growth could be cancelled or mitigated by environmental...
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An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does...
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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 … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …
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poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are … living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that …
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