This paper estimated models for GDP growth rates, poverty levels and inequality measures for the period 1990-2000 using data on 54 developing countries at 5-yearly intervals. Issues of globalization were investigated by analyzing the differential effects of exports and imports of countries and...

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries has intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis,...

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always...

Productive consumption enables the satisfaction of current needs and, at the same time, increases the productive potential of labour. Theoretical as well as empirical evidence suggests that productive consumption is primarily relevant to low-income countries. From the perspective of growth...

There has been a growing conversation about the revival of Manufacturing to push back growing inequality and reduce poverty. We discuss the pathways by which a higher share of the Manufacturing sector in GDP may bring about lower poverty incidence while a higher share of Services may have the...

Empirical studies emphasising supply factors argue that poor countries as a whole show a catching up tendency of rich countries as a whole. We offer a demand side SAM model to highlight the convergence in economic growth. The model predicts, after adjusting for peculiarities of economic systems,...

The paper introduces the social accounting matrix, SAM, and treats the conversion of the SAM into an economy wide model that employs fixed relative prices and clears market imbalances via flexible quantities. The paper reviews multiplier results relating to the trade-off between economic growth...