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reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and … estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … poverty reduction …
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Empirical evidence indicates that in many developing regions, the extreme poor in more marginal land areas form a "residual" pool of rural labor. Structural transformation in such developing economies depends crucially on labor and land use decisions of these most-vulnerable populations located...
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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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This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to … ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of … Latin America's globalization as compared with that of Southeast Asia. The paper focuses on trade and financial integration …
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The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...
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fund to promote the industrialization of agricultural products, in particular -- on farmgate prices and poverty in Guinea …
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This paper investigates the impact of rising wheat prices -- during the 2007/08 global food crisis -- on food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting the temporal stratification of a unique nationally-representative household survey, the analysis finds evidence of large declines in real per capita...
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consumption poverty. The analysis finds that poor households in Uganda tend to be net buyers of food staples, and therefore suffer … foods. The paper estimates that both the incidence and depth of poverty have increased -- at least in the short run -- as a … result of higher food prices in 2008, increasing by 2.6 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively. The increase in poverty is …
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In projecting global food demand to 2050, much attention has been given to rising demand due to the projected population increase from the current 7.4 billion to more than 9 billion. An increasingly important source of the increase in food demand is per capita demand growth induced by rising...
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-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty … that for the same budget, workfare has less impact on poverty than either a basic-income scheme (providing the same … transfer to all) or uniform transfers based on the government's below-poverty-line ration cards. For workfare to dominate other …
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