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Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …
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While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country's growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …
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While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country's growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …
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the levels of income poverty of grower and non-grower household groups, following exogenous shocks, such as contract … results indicate that productivity gains have a broad-based income growth and poverty reduction potential, even greater than … control of domestic agents. While current poverty impacts of cotton cropping are relatively small, there is high potential for …
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Economic growth typically reduces poverty, but global averages conceal wide variation at the country-level, where even … countries, measured poverty rates have remained virtually unchanged over the last decade, raising concerns over the …
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While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country's growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …
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.42. However, this slight increase in inequality at the national level is not statistically significant, and its impact on poverty … reduction efforts is small: the poverty headcount would have been 53.0% in 2002-3 if all sections of society had enjoyed the …
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