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The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … 1964–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of economic growth and inequality on poverty reflects that a 1 …% increase in income while keeping the distribution constant reduces poverty around 0.162% in rural, 0.256% in urban, 0.471% in …
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The paper uses a range of methods to assess changes in income, poverty and income distribution between 2001 and 2002 in …, both income poverty and inequality have decreased significantly and growth has been 'pro-poor', which is explained by … changes in inequality accounting for almost all the changes in poverty. The elasticity of poverty with respect to both growth …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between growth, poverty and income distribution using household data for Colombia … for the years 1996 to 2004. We study the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty by following the Poverty … degree to which the poor benefit from the growth process. We also carry out a decomposition of the changes in poverty to …
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Productivity is not just an important concept for economists, but for other social scientists as well. This article by Jeff Matrick, Editor of Challenge and economics columnist for the New York Times, is a review of a the recently published edited volume Towards a Social Understanding of...
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The aim of this article is to synthesize the various views of gender inequality and various indicators used to measure it. It argues that women lag behind men in most indicators of socio-economic development and they constitute the majority of the poor, the unemployed and the socially...
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The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analyzed for the $1.25 and $2.50-level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data.  The study … finds that on average an income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …
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The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analyzed for the $1.25 and $2.50-level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The study … finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644801
Forecasting poverty in the future is mostly a matter of forecasting economic growth. The objective of the study is to … examine the inter-temporal link between growth and poverty in Pakistan, over the next 25years period i.e., from the years 2011 … test the temporal causality among poverty measures (i.e., head count ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap), growth …
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The United Nations has set as a goal for the world community the halving of the rate of poverty between 1990 and 2015 …. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have … poverty. But in dynamic economies most economic growth comes from productivity growth, and few studies have tested the …
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. The results confirm the usefulness of this class of models, which permit the computation of poverty and inequality …
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