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progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of “globalization.” This paper provides a non … differences in data sources and measurement assumptions. These differences are often hidden from view in the debate, but they need … evidence suggests that, if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …
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This study assesses the impact of economic growth on absolute poverty in Pakistan over the last four decades. The … different income groups, below poverty line, to the economic growth. These assessments are conducted through Growth Incidence … Curves—a superior poverty measure—and calculation of the Rate of Pro-Poor Growth (RPPG) and the Ordinary Rate of Growth …
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current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …
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current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …
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This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic diversification. Using a battery of estimation techniques that are robust to endogeneity, we find that human capital has positive correlations with export diversification,...
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El documento evalúa los efectos de las remesas en un grupo de indicadores de desarrollo económico en el Perú. El crecimiento sostenido del flujo de estos recursos durante las últimas dos décadas justifica nuestro estudio. Se estudia la contribución de las remesas en tres aspectos: el...
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We broaden the analysis of pro-poor growth in monetary terms to include non-monetary dimensions of poverty and to … compare the results obtained from both indicators, namely consumer expenditures and a composite poverty indicator. In addition …
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Hasta el momento la literatura internacional no ha logrado definir con claridad cuál es la relación existente entre el consumo de energía (calorías) y la productividad del individuo. En este sentido, esta investigación intenta esbozar este comportamiento a través de la ENAHO 2002. Los...
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Missing data represent an important limitation for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. This paper presents a new cross-country panel dataset with no missing value. We make use of a new method of multiple imputation that has recently been developed by Honaker and...
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This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). These curves provide an indication of growth at different...
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