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looking forward to a much better future - in terms of both growth and human development - than was deemed possible at the time …
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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 … good quality. This study investigates inequality in past attainment, in current school access, and learning or educational …
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This paper studies the association between financial development, financial stability, and poverty for a sample of 109 … development, and only a few recent studies have looked at the effects of financial stability on poverty. However, none of the … existing studies has looked at the interaction effect of the two on poverty. Our contribution to this literature is manifold …
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During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality …
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Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability …. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a …
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This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has …
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The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …
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other financial sectors has a disequalizing income effect. (2) Growth of informal and semi-formal financial sectors at the …
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This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub … other covariates, has a quantifiable and discernible impact on inclusive growth compared with availability and knowledge of … financial services. Precisely, a unit increase in the usage of financial products and services improves inclusive growth by 0 …
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