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Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?
Benjamin, Dwayne - 2017
This paper estimates the relationship between initial village inequality and subsequent household income growth for a large sample of households in rural China. Using a rich longitudinal survey spanning the years 1987-2002, and controlling for an array of household and village characteristics,...
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Regional Diversity and Inclusive Growth in Indian Cities
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services … with low population density. Diversity correlates with disproportionately higher employment growth in the informal sector … and plays a role in generating employment in the district's smaller industries. These findings point toward the "inclusive …
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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
Klasen, Stephan - 2017
that draw in female workers have expanded least, so that changes in the sectoral structure of employment alone would have …
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Rural Non-Farm Employment and Household Welfare : Evidence from Malawi
Adjognon, Guigonan Serge - 2017
between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the … through which non-farm employment might improve the welfare of rural households. Although participation in non-farm activities …, controlling for time varying differences in local market conditions and employment opportunities. The results suggest that non …
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On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa
Barrett, Christopher B. - 2017
From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress happened while agricultural productivity growth remained low in the aggregate, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was...
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Land Market Restrictions, Women's Labor Force Participation, and Wages in a Rural Economy
Emran, M. Shahe - 2018
This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on the rural labor market outcomes for women. The existing literature emphasizes two mechanisms through which land restrictions can affect the economic outcomes: the collateral value of land, and (in) security of property rights....
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Place-Based Policies for Development
Duranton, Gilles - 2018
Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and evaluate....
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When and Where Do We See Regional Poverty Reduction and Convergence? Lessons from the Roof of Turkey
Azevedo, João Pedro - 2017
important contributor to Turkey's regional poverty reduction. In additionally, employment growth in the services sectors boosted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970162
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Inclusive Economic Growth in America?S Cities : What?S the Playbook and the Score?
de Souza Briggs, Xavier - 2017
This paper defines economic inclusion as the ability of all people, including the disadvantaged, to share in economic gains, that is, the conditions that allow for broadly shared prosperity. Beyond the ?right? to access consumption in cities, and beyond relatively standardized safety net...
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Migration, Remittances and Forests : Disentangling the Impact of Population and Economic Growth on Forests
Tiwari, Sailesh - 2017
International migration has increased rapidly in recent decades and this has been accompanied by a remarkable increase in transfers made by migrants to their home countries. This paper investigates the effect of the rural economic growth brought about by migration and remittances on Nepal's...
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