,tend to rise faster than the prices of material goods. Central to his model is the disparityin labour productivity growth … disease of services retains its explanatory power and relevance today. It refutescriticisms that productivity growth in …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither … conflicts. Among the strategic elements that have contributed to reduced poverty are: an outward-oriented strategy of export … in reducing poverty. Growth can be substantial if the policy and institutional environment is right. …

This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to … understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …

This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro … reduction in poverty is monotonically an increasing function of the pro-poor growth measure. This paper proposes a pro …-poor growth measure that satisfies the monotonicity criterion. This measure is called the ‘poverty equivalent growth rate’, which …

, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor … productivity grew at a healthy pace in much of the region. Overall our analysis provides substantial cause for optimism about the …

Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …. Labour productivity growth in the period 1995 to 2001 manifests larger structural changes than in previous periods, with the … step-up in multi-factor productivity being the most notable. The relative contribution of ICT-capital deepening has also …