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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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Gender Inequality and Growth : The Case of Rich vs. Poor Countries
Amin, Mohammad - 2017
This paper uses cross-section data for 107 countries to explore the relationship between gender inequality and economic growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender inequality in education, which has been the focus of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972226
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Accelerating Poverty Reduction in a Less Poor World : The Roles of Growth and Inequality
Olinto, Pedro - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973261
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Does Financial Structure Matter for Poverty? Evidence from Developing Countries
Kpodar, Kangni - 2017
Although there has been research looking at the relationship between the structure of the financial system and economic growth, much less work has dealt with the importance of bank-based versus market-based financial systems for poverty and income distribution. Empirical evidence has indicated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975555
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Did Growth Become Less Pro-Poor in the 1990s?
Lopez, Humberto - 2016
The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the 1990s a positive and significant correlation...
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Agglomeration, Urbanization and Employment Growth in Ghana : Evidence from an Industry-District Panel
Kerr, Andrew - 2019
In this paper the impact of various agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian manufacturing is investigated, using data from two firm censuses, as well as population census and trade data. The study is the first to use nationally representative firm data that covers the formal and...
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Definition Matters : Metropolitan Areas and Agglomeration Economies in a Large Developing Country
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2018
A variety of approaches to delineate metropolitan areas have been developed. Systematic comparisons of these approaches in terms of the urban landscape that they generate are however few. This paper aims to fill this gap. The paper focuses on Indonesia and makes use of the availability of data...
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Trade and Cities
Karayalcin, Cem - 2017
levels of urbanization. The cost of excessively high levels of urban concentration can be very high in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966026
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Shifting Comparative Advantages in Tajikistan : Implications for Growth Strategy
Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2017
The future development of the Tajik economy will be shaped by its comparative advantage on world markets. Exploiting comparative advantage enables an economy to reap gains from trade. Tajikistan's most important comparative advantage is its hydropower potential, which is far larger than the...
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Demography, Urbanization and Development : Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push?
Jedwab, Remi - 2017
Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural … developing countries? rapid urban growth and urbanization may also be linked to demographic factors, such as rapid internal urban … and displays strong associations with urban congestion, providing additional insight into the phenomenon of urbanization …
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