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Africa. The literature, however, provides conflicting results about the agricultural export-led growth hypothesis. In this … the poor in Africa. Interestingly, agricultural export is growth for the rich in Africa, although the elasticity of GDP is …-income countries in Africa may focus on non-agricultural export …
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In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
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Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole …
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, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …
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of inflation in Africa. The Afrobarometer survey is used. Our data cover 38 countries consisting of three rounds of …
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of inflation in Africa. The Afrobarometer survey is used. Our data cover 38 countries consisting of three rounds of …
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This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing literature, our methodology of instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) explicitly demonstrates the differential marginal impact of remittances for households at different...
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Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules for economic and political transactions. Poor countries suffer from inadequate, inefficient transaction rules. Formal rules (e.g., laws, policies) must be nested in hospitable behavioural norms and values....
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According to official poverty estimates in Mexico, more than 50 percent of the population was poor in 2016, half of which could not even afford the basic food basket. Whereas most of the existing research analyses poverty focusing exclusively on average income or on the expected probability of...
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Movement for Multi-party Democracy government saw the introduction of a series of major economic reforms designed to transform …
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