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Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure : Comparative Path Analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam

Arndt, Channing - 2014

experiences of Mozambique and Vietnam — two countries with similar levels and compositions of economic growth but divergent … in Vietnam. Inadequate education, trade and transport systems are found to be more severe structural constraints to … poverty reduction in Mozambique than in Vietnam. Investing in these areas can significantly enhance the effectiveness of …

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Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure : Comparative Path Analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam

Arndt, Channing - 2014

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Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure : Mozambique and Vietnam Compared

Arndt, Channing - 2014

Economic growth typically reduces poverty, but global averages conceal wide variation at the country-level, where even rapid growth may not significantly improve the incomes of the poor. In some of sub-Saharan Africa's fastest growing countries, measured poverty rates have remained virtually...

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Viet Nam : the dragon that rose from the ashes

Tarp, Finn - 2018

This study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the Vietnamese people; and subsequent developments, which are...

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Development and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Addison, Tony; Pikkarainen, Ville; Rönkkö, Risto; … - 2017

This paper puts sub-Saharan Africa's economic development into perspective. While much did not go as hoped for at independence, much of the region has been on a more promising development trajectory since the mid-1990s, as we illustrate using growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We...

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Understanding Mozambique's growth experience through an employment lens

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015

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 survey data to dig into these trends and provide...

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Facing the development challenge in Mozambique : an economywide perspective

Tarp, Finn (contributor) - 2002

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Development and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Addison, Tony; Pikkarainen, Ville; Rönkkö, Risto; … - In: Development and poverty reduction : a global …, (pp. 55-106). 2020

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Facing the Development Challenge in Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn; Jensen, Henning Tarp; … - 2014

Following Mozambique’s economic collapse in 1986, the country began a wide-ranging process of reform, with the support of the international community. The diagnosis was of an economy that failed to maintain monetary control, consumed beyond its means, focused production excessively on...

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Growth, structural transformation, and rural change in Viet Nam : a rising dragon on the move : a study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Ec...

Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017

Many developing countries - Viet Nam included - continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive...

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