After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …

-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …

Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the … way; the last three decades have witnessed one of the best performances in the world in terms of both economic growth and … poverty reduction. People's living standards have improved significantly, and the country's socio-economic achievements are …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s …. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability …. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a …

alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of macroeconomic policy-fiscal and monetary policy together with debt … concludes that the pandemic could reinforce the existing trend towards higher social inequality. …

impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The … causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address …

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 …

The concept of "green growth" implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic … prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This study, however, argues that … rather than being win-win, green growth is similar to most types of policy reforms that advocate the acceptance of short …