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be associated with acute social inequality and deep poverty. Many countries struggle to diversify their economies, and …
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
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The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis. The task for economic policy is to help keep people … alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects …
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Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
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Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
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If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet, the poor seldom receive a satisfactory education. Too little is spent on primary...
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focus on poverty reduction coming recently to the fore. It also examines the relationship between economic growth and … poverty reduction. The paper then discusses how to achieve economic growth, starting with the caveat that growth must be … difficulties that arise. It concludes that getting development policy right has the potential to lift millions out of poverty. …
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since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic growth. By implication, therefore, it can be inferred that poverty …. A downturn in volumes in the 1990s is demonstrated. It asserts that poverty is higher and the MDGs are hard to achieve …
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