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in Colombia. We use multidimensional pro-poor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health …
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The informal sector (IS) plays a significant role in developing countries viz. the provision of employment, income and supplying ignored markets. However, working and employment conditions within the sector are still poor. Its expansion and changing structures have thus drawn the attention of...
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obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
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greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household size was a critical determinant of poverty levels. Sector of … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the … poverty in the different parts of the country. One size does not fit all. Deliberate effort of the government in …
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This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …
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to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors …
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The main driver of poverty reduction has shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural income growth in rural …), however, in reducing rural poverty in relatively more isolated provinces. Our results suggest that agricultural investments …
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …
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The paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth, and poverty, using the interesting case … study of Uganda. Although Uganda has recently experienced excellent economic growth and poverty reduction, it currently has … impact of population growth on per capita economic growth and poverty. We find both theoretical considerations and strong …
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