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Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …
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-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty …
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The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...
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The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …
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This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … confined to the poor within each population group (that is, "poverty targeted" transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …
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Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure services to be essential for economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution. The theoretical...
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remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …
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poverty reduction will depend on several factors. The outlook will likely be good if African countries can continue the gains … economy additionally by 22 percent by 2030 relative to the base case and reduce poverty by an additional 51 million people …
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By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on whether, under the economic liberalization program...
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This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become …
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