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Multinationals, International Business and Poverty : A Cross-Disciplinary Research Overview and Conceptual Framework

Kolk, Ans - 2018

This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis of articles in the top journals in business, economics, and policy. We develop a conceptual cross-disciplinary framework that maps and disentangles the impact of different types...

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Do Trade Preferences Impact the Working Poverty Rate? Case Study on Bangladesh

Khorana, Sangeeta; Caram, Santiago; Biagetti, Marco - 2022

Bangladesh is set to graduate from the least developed country status. Currently, Bangladesh benefits from preferential market access at zero tariffs to the European Union under the Everything but Arms scheme but its exports will no longer be eligible after graduation in 2026. Policy makers...

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South-North convergence from a new perspective

Hübler, Michael - 2013

-North convergence based on North-South technology diffusion through intermediate goods trade is guaranteed if the knowledge effect … dominates the productivity effect. Moreover, a larger Southern market expands the area of convergence and can prevent divergence … convergence is desirable for both, the South and the North. …

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Population growth and multiple equilibria: Inferences from a modified Ramsey model

Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2011

The demographic transition is introduced into the otherwise standard Ramsey model to generate multiple equilibria, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions under which multiplicity is realized. Three cases arise,...

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Unsustainable debt burden and poverty in Pakistan: A case for enhanced HIPC initiative

Anwar, Tilat - 2002

The financing of Pakistan’s substantial current account deficits within the framework of IMF and the World Bank structural adjustment programmes—about 6 per cent of GDP in the early 1990s led to a debt crisis in the late 1990s. IMF considered this level of current account deficit quite...

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Debt relief under the HIPC initiative: Context and outlook for debt sustainability and resource flows

Abrego, Lisandro; Ross, Doris C. - 2001

This paper analyses debt relief efforts by creditors to alleviate the debt burden of lowincome countries. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative builds on traditional debt relief, and for the first time involves relief on multilateral debt. It seeks to reduce debt to sustainable...

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Growth, income distribution, and poverty: A review

Bigsten, Arne; Levin, Jörgen - 2001

This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither does it find any systematic link from fast growth to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279149

Impact of globalization and liberalization on growth, employment and poverty: A case study of Pakistan

Anwar, Tilat - 2002

While globalization is viewed as a key to future economic development, it is also argued that it increases poverty, threatens employment and living standards of the poor. Like many other developing countries, Pakistan also attempted to integrate its economy in the global economy through...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279208

A macro policy for poverty eradication through structural change

Sobhan, Rehman - 2005

This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279234

Debt relief under the HIPC initiative: Context and outlook for debt sustainability and resource flows

Abrego, Lisandro; Ross, Doris C. - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279274

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