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Economic Development, Poverty, and Inequality in Haiti During the Past 20 Years (1997-2017)
Ramirez, Byron - 2019
During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897526
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Subjective well-being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: April 16, 2013
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736745
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Population Growth in Zimbabwe : A Threat to Economic Development?
Nyoni, Thabani - 2017
Population growth is one of the fundamental factors that directly determine the supply of human resources which are indisputably critical for production. Population growth plays a pivotal role in country's economic development trajectory. Most economically developed countries have significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952818
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Do remittances promote economic growth and reduce poverty? : evidence from Latin American countries
Ekanayake, E. M.; Moslares, Carlos - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 2/35, pp. 1-26
countries, and (b) workers' remittances help reduce poverty in Latin American countries. In recent decades, workers' remittances …' remittances on economic growth and poverty in 21 Latin American countries. The study uses annual data covering all Latin American … addition, we estimate the short-run and long-run effects of workers' remittances on economic growth and poverty on individual …
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How does quality of institutions affect the impact of trade openness on economic growth of Ghana?
Duodu, Emmanuel; Baidoo, Samuel Tawiah - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
Developing countries, of which Ghana is no exception have actively engaged in trade openness after independence, yet, their economic growth remains low and this calls for urgent attention to address the situation. This study therefore examines the impact of trade openness on economic growth of...
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Financial Development, Trade Openness, and Economic Growth in Nigeria
Afolabi, Joshua - 2023
This study examined the impact of financial liberalization and trade openness as well as their interactive effects on the growth of the Nigerian economy using annual time-series data for the period, 1981 to 2018. The results of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root test show that all the...
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Bribing to escape poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba - 2022
This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the … words, the attendant results indicate that the impact of poverty on bribery becomes negative when inflation increases. The …
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Understanding Mozambique's growth experience through an employment lens
Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015
. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household …
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Socio-economic development in South Asia : the past 50 years
Osmani, Siddiqur Rahman - 2018
The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913065
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249771