acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. … outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of growth, inflation, employment, investment, balance of payments, and the … macroeconomic outcomes on poverty rates. With regard to policy, the study examines the changes that took place in 1997-98, and then …

macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain … sectors may cause greater poverty reduction. The model involves a non-traded and a traded sector on the formal side of the … traded sector is more pro-poor compared to a similar rise in the non-traded sector as the former draws workers out of poverty …

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of … examines how that growth and associated structural changes are altering agricultural markets in particular and thereby food … security. It does so retrospectively and by projecting a model of the world economy that compares alternative growth strategies …

policy documents, and examines to what extent their objectives have been met. It highlights poverty reduction and …

yield a negative impact of exchange rate flexibility/volatility on growth, which is found to be particularly strong for …

We obtain time series estimates of the long run growth rates of 17 OECD countries, and test the hypothesis that these … long run growth rates, and; (ii) any policies that can raise national growth rates must be international in scope. The … results therefore have bleak implications for the ability of countries to affect their long run growth rates. …

In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries' poverty gap during the period … are indeed affecting the wrong people as we observe a 2.3-5.1 percentage points (pp) larger poverty gap in sanctioned … assets, or embargoes on most or all economic activity are particularly detrimental and lead to an increase in the poverty gap …

In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning … much in-work poverty is there in the United States? How does the US compare to other rich democracies? Has America's in …-work poverty rate changed over time? Who are the in-work poor? What are the main drivers of levels and changes in in-work poverty …

In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries' poverty gap during the period … are indeed affecting the wrong people as we observe a 2.3 - 5.1 percentage points (pp) larger poverty gap in sanctioned … assets, or embargoes on most or all economic activity are particularly detrimental and lead to an increase in the poverty gap …