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Mozambique : off-track or temporarily sidelined?

Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015

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...

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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andrew D.; … - 2015

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 agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....

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Ghana : Poverty reduction over thirty years

McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015

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 consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this...

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Growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Arndt, Channing (ed.); McKay, Andrew D. (ed.); … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2016 - First edition

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Trade and income growth in Vietnam : estimates from a new social accounting matrix

Tarp, Finn; Roland-Holst, David W.; Rand, John - In: Economic systems research : journal of the … 14 (2002) 2, pp. 157-184

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Poverty, inequality, and growth : trends, policies, and controversies

Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo; Tarp, Finn - 2022

Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Much has changed in the global economy in recent decades and perspectives on progress made vary widely. This is even more so in light of the ongoing...

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On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance

Ferreira, Ines A.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Tarp, Finn - 2021

Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key development aims. Still, an informed debate on the...

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Inequality in the developing world

Gradín, Carlos (ed.); Leibbrandt, Murray V. (ed.); … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty …

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The practice of industrial policy : government-business coordination in Africa and East Asia

Page, John M. (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017 - First edition

Much of the information relevant to policy formulation for industrial development is held by the private sector, not by public officials. There is therefore fairly broad agreement in the development literature that some form of structured engagement - often referred to as close or strategic...

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Child Health and Mortality : Does Health Knowledge Matter?

Tarp, Finn - 2014

characterised by high infant mortality, but not by malnutrition. We show that although maternal education is important in … determining child health and mortality this effect diminishes or disappears when health knowledge is introduced as an explanatory … variable. It emerges that health knowledge has large and positive effects on both child mortality and health when instrumented …

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