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This paper investigates China's influence on local economic development in 37 African countries between 1997 and 2007 …, both prior and after China's WTO Accession, to the corresponding changes in districts without any mineral endowment. Using … China's WTO Accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will …
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its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …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 …
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
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This paper argues that attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have led to institutions that are not robust. The state institutions and organizations continue to be highly dependent on external resources and technical expertise, and lack of critical mass of people able and willing to maintain...
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to higher levels of education (there are 30 times as...
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growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We identify key weaknesses, including lack of structural transformation …
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
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indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …
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poverty and inequality indicators decreased substantially between 2000 and 2012. The only negative impact of the international …
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negatively by the crisis, and labour earnings and poverty indicators had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. …
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