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considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote rapid and sustained economic growth, full employment, poverty reduction … and unmet needs for family planning and reproductive health services in relation to poverty. A sidelight on pressing …, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key …
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find that Property Insecurity of ethnopolitical minorities does not reduce growth in either the short or long term; that … conflict; and that controlling for civil war, Property Insecurity is associated with higher growth. Economic growth can occur … is reallocated into the hands of investors with access to capital. However, the potentially growth enhancing effect of …
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marginalized groups are not. Aggregate long-run growth occurs in the presence of significant property insecurity for marginalized …
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This is a policy paper which examines the development challenges of the Caribbean island of Barbados against the backdrop of the government's decision to enter into a structural adjustment agreement with the International Monetary Fund in 2018. The paper gives an overview of Barbados' trajectory...
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assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a …
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participation rate and economic development of both countries. Female labor force participation rate and Real GDP per capita are … used as the proxy indicator of women empowerment and economic development, respectively. In the regression model, Real GDP … economic participation and opportunity, and educational attainment, whereas Bangladesh leads in health and survival, and …
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poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of …In this paper, we analyze whether current demographic dynamics in Mozambique are likely to reduce per capita growth and … per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population …
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Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors … identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender … stimulus to growth in a number of SSA countries underscores the importance of assessing the gender effect of macroeconomic …
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to higher levels of education (there are 30 times as...
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conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …
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