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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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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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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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This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico …
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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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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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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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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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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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This paper presents estimates of the relationship between the share of income accruing to the middle class and gross domestic product per capita of economies from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The increase in gross domestic product per capita that these economies experienced during...
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