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In this article we examine the dynamic causal relationship between economic growth, employment, and poverty reduction … in South Africa – using the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure. The study attempts to … answer one critical question: does economic growth in South Africa trickle down to the poor through job creation? The study …
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reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net inflows per capita and the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index as … and poverty reduction in Africa but find significant differences among African regions. We also find that FDI has a … between FDI and poverty reduction is positive and significant for economic communities in Central and East Africa, it is non …
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unprecedented fall in output, trade and employment since 2008; and India's economy is no exception. This study with the available … government in recent years has added to the decline of India's output and consequently affected its scope of employment …
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Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
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The Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) provides the framework for Dominica’s economic and social policies over the next five years and sets out the macroeconomic framework; the growth strategy, including the enabling environment for private enterprise and sectoral strategies;...
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This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …
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Papua New Guinea’s economic growth has outpaced the majority of economies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific since 2007. Its development challenges, however, remain daunting, and it lags behind other countries in the region in terms of per capita income and achievement of the Millennium...
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increased, especially that of the private sector, which has been vigorously increased. The targets of employment and poverty …
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Policies seeking to directly help the poor have an important role to play. But without sustained growth in per capita output and significant job creation, they will not succeed. Policies promoting growth have been suggested, most notably by avoiding pro-cyclical responses to macroeconomic shocks...
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employment as critical for translating the benefits of economic growth into the lives of people. But for this to happen, new …
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