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-microeconomic assessment. The results indicate that HIV/AIDS greatly reduces annual economic growth, mainly by lowering the long-term rate of … technical change. However, the impacts on income poverty are small, and inequality is reduced by HIV/AIDS. This is because high … unemployment among low-income households minimizes the economic costs of increased mortality. In contrast, slower economic growth …
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this paper support a comprehensive petroleum subsidy reform in Yemen. Economic growth is projected to accelerate between 0 …, especially for the poor. Outcomes of alternative reform scenarios range from an increase in poverty of 2 to 6 percentage points …, industrial, and service value chains, which should encourage private sector led and job creating growth in the medium term. …
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, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …Conflicts and political instability have been serious constraints to growth in Guinea-Bissau. Of special concern was … estimates that GDP per capita today could have been more than 40 percent higher if there had been no conflict in 1998. In turn …
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The reflections in this article stem from Andreatta’s 1958 analysis on Income distribution and capital accumulation, in the form of a stylized interpretation of his thought as a political economist. His theoretical analyses are reinterpreted with particular attention to the effects of...
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"We use two rounds of surveys, taken in 2000 and 2008 in the Zhili Township children's garment cluster in Zhejiang Province, to examine in depth the evolution of this industrial cluster. Firm size has grown on average in terms of output and employment, and increasing divergence in firm sizes has...
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, the relationship between windfall profits, growth, and households' welfare is less straightforward than what the simple … both productivity-enhancing investments and an oil fund is crucial to achieving shared growth and macroeconomic stability …
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"Township-village enterprises (TVEs) were a major engine of China's rapid rural industrialization in the past three decades. TVEs also played a key role in fostering entrepreneurship and served as a major stepping-stone for institutional changes when legal protections of private property rights...
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The reflections in this article stem from Andreatta’s 1958 analysis on Income distribution and capital accumulation, in the form of a stylized interpretation of his thought as a political economist. His theoretical analyses are reinterpreted with particular attention to the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571183
of the world. Since the late 1950s, its growth performance has been outstanding. Poverty incidence has declined …
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variability and change on economic growth and poverty reduction in Zambia. The hydro-crop model is first used to estimate the … DCGE model to assess the impact of climate variability on economic growth and poverty. We find that climate variability … below the national poverty line by 2016. A similar method is also used to examine the potential impact of climate change on …
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