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Trade integration and growth : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César A.; Cantú, Catalina - 2019
This paper examines the growth effects of different dimensions of international trade integration-notably, volume, diversification, and natural resource dependence-in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, the paper documents the recent trends in these foreign trade dimensions for the region and the...
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Inflation threshold levels and economic growth in the Franc zone countries
Sanga, Dimitri; Gui-Diby, Steve Loris - 2020
threshold above which additional inflationary pressures adversely affect economic expansion. It uses cointegration methods that … African Monetary Union and 4.3-4.5 percent in the West African Monetary Union. Homogeneous cointegration panel data analyses …
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Uncertainty in ex-ante poverty and income distribution : insights from output growth and natural resource country typologies
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...
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The distributional impacts of cigarette taxation in Bangladesh
Del Carmen, Giselle; Fuchs, Alan; Genoni, Maria E. - 2018
across consumption deciles. This shows that an increase in the price of cigarettes in Bangladesh has small consumption …
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The Distributional of Impacts of Cigarette Taxation in Bangladesh
Del Carmen, Giselle - 2018
vary across consumption deciles. This shows that an increase in the price of cigarettes in Bangladesh has small consumption …
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Dynamics of Rural Growth in Bangladesh : Sustaining Poverty Reduction
World Bank Group - 2016
The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty …, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored …
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Toward a Blue Economy : A Pathway for Bangladesh's Sustainable Growth
Patil, P.G. - 2018
linked to the ocean, and to provide a framework for the Government of Bangladesh to analyze its potential. With the peaceful … planning process to achieve Bangladesh's blue economy aspirations, including measures of the current economic uses of the ocean …-makers in Bangladesh in proposing specific reforms, by illustrating the economic activities of the ocean economy together with …
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Bangladesh Tertiary Education Sector Review : Skills and Innovation for Growth
Rahman, Tashmina - 2019
Bangladesh is recognized ... …
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Dynamics of rural growth in Bangladesh : sustaining poverty reduction
Gautam, Madhur; Faruqee, Rashid - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
Introduction -- The dynamic rural economy -- Agricultural growth and its drivers -- The evolving structure of agriculture -- Growth of the non-farm sector and its drivers -- Connecting farmers to markets : trading in high-value products -- Prospects for food and nutrition security -- Priority...
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Long-Term Growth Scenarios for Bangladesh
Sinha, Rishabh - 2017
Bangladesh has achieved robust economic growth over the past 10 years, with real GDP growing by more than 6 percent on … forward. A simple growth model calibrated to the Bangladesh economy is used to analyze various growth scenarios. The main …
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