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Utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000 - 11 : welfare improvements in a changing economic landscape

Stifel, David; Woldehanna, Tassew - 2014

We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the decade, and in rural areas in the latter half. Other...

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Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? : making sense of Malawi's poverty puzzle

Pauw, Karl; Beck, Ulrik; Mussa, Richard - 2014

Disappointment was widespread when rapid economic growth since 2005, coupled with a smallholder-targeted fertilizer subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011,...

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Utility-consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001 - 10 : snapshots in the presence of multiple economy-wide shocks

Stifel, David; Razafimanantena, Tiaray; Rakotomanana, Faly - 2014

We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Because two major political crises occurred between the survey periods, the snapshots of national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6...

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Colonial legacy and poverty reduction in sub- Saharan Africa

Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver; Mosley, Paul - 2016

Although growth has improved substantially in most African countries in recent years, poverty across the continent has fallen very little in the aggregate. There have been strong poverty reduction performances in some countries, but others exhibit higher poverty rates now than in 1990 despite...

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In search of a strategy for making growth more pro-poor in the Philippines

Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Balisacan, Arsenio M.; Bresciani, Fabrizio - 2011

The main driver of poverty reduction has shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural income growth in rural Philippines in the past two decades. Agricultural growth is still relatively more important (vis-à-vis non-agricultural growth), however, in reducing rural poverty in relatively more...

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Why Has Growth Not Been Pro-Poor in the Philippines, and What to Do About it? : Revisiting Pro-Poor Growth Agenda

Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Balisacan, Arsenio; Bresciani, Fabrizio - 2014

Despite the large and expanding literature on pro-poor growth, quantitative studies identifying policy levers leading to pro-poor growth remain scarce, and this paper addresses this lacuna in the literature. The main driver of rural poverty reduction shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural...

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How Real is the Secular Decline in Poverty in India?

Suryanarayana, M. H. - 2000

Solution for any problem calls for its proper assessment and estimate. Polices, both macro and micro, for providing safety-nets for the poor in developing countries like India are often formulated with inadequate appreciation of empirical and methodological aspects. As a result factually...

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Relationship between economic freedom and pro-poor growth : evidence from Pakistan (1995-2010)

Zaman, Khalid; Khan, Muhammad Mushtaq; Ahmad, Mehboob - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 2 (2011) 1, pp. 24-35

The relationship between economic freedom and pro-poor growth is examined in Pakistan from 1995-2010. The concept of …. -- economic freedom indicators ; pro-poor growth ; poverty ; inequality ; Pakistan …

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Environmental Kuznets Curve and Pakistan : An Empirical Analysis

Ahmed, Khalid - 2014

emission, economic growth, energy consumption, trade liberalization and population density in Pakistan with yearly data from … environmental degradation in Pakistan. The energy consumption and growth are the major explanatory variables which contribute to … environmental pollution in Pakistan. Moreover, the time series data analysis is used and the stability of variables in estimated …

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Renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth in Pakistan : a disaggregated analysis

Jan, Inayatullah; Durrani, Shazia - 2022

(GDP) in Pakistan for the period 1972-2015. The study extended the basic production function having labor and capital as … the mainstream variables by adding major energy sources of Pakistan. The results confirmed a unidirectional relationship … energy conservation policies as they can hamper GDP growth in Pakistan …

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