fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population …, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …