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States Diverge, Cities Converge : Drivers of Local Growth Catch-Up in India
Li, Yue - 2018
This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban economics. It departs from the existing literature in three ways. First, the paper assesses growth patterns across districts and across places below the district level instead of taking...
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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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Insuring Growth : The Impact of Disaster Funds on Economic Reconstruction in Mexico
de Janvry, Alain - 2017
reconstruction funds in Mexico, this paper provides some of the first estimates of the impact of disaster funds on local economic …
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Crime and Growth Convergence : Evidence from Mexico
Enamorado, Ted - 2017
exploiting cross-municipality income and crime data for Mexico -- a country that experienced a high increase in crime rates over … municipal level for Mexico (2005-2010), the analysis finds evidence indicating that drug-related crimes indeed deter growth. It …
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Poverty Convergence in a Time of Stagnation : A Municipal-Level Perspective from Mexico (1992-2014)
Lopez-Calva, Luis-Felipe - 2019
This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico …
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Regional Economic Growth in Mexico : Recent Evolution and the Role of Governance
Weiss, Eli - 2017
in Mexico -- with a particular focus on the post North American Free Trade Agreement period. There is also a vast … relationship between measures of government transparency and gross domestic product per capita growth in Mexico during 2001 …
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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
In the past decade, Turkey has experienced a notable level of poverty reduction at all levels (extreme poor, poor, and vulnerable). The steady decline in poverty was also resilient to the decline in gross domestic product per capita growth during the crisis. However, although poverty convergence...
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Regional Diversity and Inclusive Growth in Indian Cities
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
sectors. Specialization and diversity metrics that combine industries in both sectors are calculated and related to subsequent … job growth. The analysis finds robust and consistent evidence that the diversity of industries in the district across the … typical stories about the role of diversity. For example, the growth is strongest in rural areas of districts and in districts …
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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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Explaining Local Manufacturing Growth in Chile : the Advantages of Sectoral Diversity
Almeida, Rita - 2017
this period. Rather, local sector diversity was associated with higher long-run growth in total factor productivity …. However, there is no evidence that the diversity effect was driven by the local interaction with a set of suppliers and …
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