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per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population … household size on poverty and inequality appears to have fallen in recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thus demographic … poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of …
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earlier studies have suggested that the spatial pattern of poverty in Uganda is very sensitive to whether national or regional …Absolute poverty lines are often derived from the cost of obtaining sufficient calories. Where staples vary across … regions, such poverty lines may differ depending on whether they are set using national or regional food baskets. Regional …
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study of Uganda. Although Uganda has recently experienced excellent economic growth and poverty reduction, it currently has … Uganda. Moreover, it contributes significantly to low achievement in poverty reduction and is associated with households …The paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth, and poverty, using the interesting case …
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dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and … greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower …-fundamentalist approach to African development, but the short-term imperative of reducing poverty necessitates further agricultural investment. …
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better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and … from the mine, while district-level consumption inequality increases in all districts belonging to a producing province …
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high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
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; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure, and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of …
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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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