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Socio-economic development in South Asia : the past 50 years

Osmani, Siddiqur Rahman - 2018

The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...

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Population management, RH law, and inclusivity

Pernia, Ernesto M. - 2014

Taking off from the self-evident fact that the population variable centrally figures in both labor and product markets, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote...

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Development and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Addison, Tony; Pikkarainen, Ville; Rönkkö, Risto; … - 2017

This paper puts sub-Saharan Africa's economic development into perspective. While much did not go as hoped for at independence, much of the region has been on a more promising development trajectory since the mid-1990s, as we illustrate using growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We...

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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?

Addison, Tony - 2015

Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...

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Mixed Development Messages from Africa : Macro-Economic Performance versus Poverty Models’ Tests Results

Mpoyi, Richard T. - 2020

This research is an attempt to explore what appears to be a contradictory development message coming out of Africa. On the one hand, several African nations are facing structural difficulties such as predatory regimes, political violence, civil wars, numerous diseases, and extreme poverty. An...

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Public Finance, Micro Finance and Accelerated Economic Development for the Eradication of Extreme Poverty in Sub Sahara Africa

Chukwuogor, Chiaku Nwamu - 2016

According to the World Bank, in 2011, 415 million, that is 41.5 percent of the world's extremely poor, living on less than $1.25 a day, live in Saharan Africa. A situation where more than 415 million people in a sub region of the world still live in abject poverty should be of global concern not...

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Politics and the Room to Manoeuvre : Democracy, Social Opportunity and Poverty in India

Mitra, Subrata Kumar - 2020

perceptions of India's new economic policy. The article first situates itself within the context of new theoretical literature on … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical …

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Introduction to : Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea

Li, Kui-Wai - 2020

At the least, this book summarizes and reconsiders many of the arguments and findings that supported and explained the economic “miracles” of the four East Asian economies of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of People's Republic of China (Hong Kong), Singapore, Chinese Taipei...

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Benign growth : structural transformation and inclusive growth in Thailand

Warr, Peter George; Suphannachart, Waleerat - 2020

Between 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined. Industry's gross domestic product share increased, and the...

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Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in Bangladesh

Raihan, Selim; Khan, Sunera Saba - 2020

The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of agriculture in GDP has declined, while the significance of industry and service sectors has increased. These structural changes have been associated with persistent challenges such as...

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