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Bangladesh economy, aiming to tackle inequality and promote inclusive growth. …The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of … overwhelmingly salient component of Bangladesh's export composition, this is due primarily to the rapid expansion of the ready …
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This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the …, unemployment, and inequality forged under the past race-based colonial and apartheid regimes remain stagnant. The future of South …
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inequality increased until the late 1980s, then gradually declined, reaching a level in 2017 that was well below the 1981 level …-shaped relationship between average income and inequality but suggest no long-term 'Kuznetsian tension' between the rate of structural … change and the level of inequality. …
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the relationship between manufacturing value added or employment shares and trends in income inequality. In Indonesia …
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Only a few European economies and Korea and Taiwan Province of China reached high-income status during 1970-2010. Malaysia's real income per capita increased to 26 percent of the U.S. level in 2010 from 20 percent in 1970. Despite relatively strong growth and a substantial improvement in export...
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transition from the import-substitution industrialization strategy to the outward-oriented neoliberal model of high inequality, a … accounts for two-thirds of total employment in the economy. The trend of persistent deindustrialization and high inequality is …
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The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In this paper, we argue that the standard policy advice to managers of resource revenues has been dominated by short-termism and the lack of a perspective on economic development and structural...
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This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast structural transformation toward industrialization, manufacturing in particular. Workers moved out of agriculture into manufacturing, and the sector diversified and upgraded its...
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This study examines the structural transformation-inclusive growth nexus for Ghana. The data cover the post-independence period for Ghana and are phased into three periods: the post-independence period to the start of the economic recovery programme (ERP) and structural adjustment programme...
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beginning of the 1990s. During the same period, income inequality remained practically stable and at high levels, only falling …
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