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Vietnam has been following China's path closely and very successfully for the last two decades, since the adoption of … the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper addresses this question with regard to Vietnam, who joined the WTO at the … beginning of 2007: we study Vietnam's potential for sustainable growth and international integration. We start by briefly …
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This paper determines the impacts of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) for Brazil under alternative assumptions concerning the returns to scale and the nature of competition in several industries, emphasizing the effects on the agribusiness activities. The GTAPinGAMS applied...
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This study investigates the impact of foreign capital inflows on poverty in Vietnam, using annual time series data from … 1990 to 2018. The study was motivated by the need to establish if burgeoning foreign capital inflows in Vietnam can support … the poverty alleviation agenda. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and external debt were used as proxies for foreign capital …
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and poverty reduction. For this purpose, multilevel analysis approaches are followed to capture the likely effects of some … public expenditure on growth, inequality, and poverty. One of the most important results of this study is that policies aimed … at enhancing the purchase power of the poor are more effective in reducing poverty than policies aimed to improve human …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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Poverty-growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process …. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty … and space. Poverty-growth semi-elasticities provide a more robust measure of the responsiveness of poverty to growth. …
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inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …
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The paper examines the link between population and per capita economic growth, and poverty, using the interesting case … study of Uganda. Although Uganda has recently experienced excellent economic growth and poverty reduction, it currently has … impact of population growth on per capita economic growth and poverty. We find both theoretical considerations and strong …
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, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …
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