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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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unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world …. This has resulted in a remarkable poverty reduction in the last two to three decades in the two economies. PRC and India … provide lessons to the developing world, particularly emerging economies, that are also struggling to improve their economic …
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The aim of this article is to examine how agriculture and non-agriculture growth and inflation affect income inequality. The multivariate panel data approach is used to examine the application of Kuznets hypothesis between income inequality and agriculture and non-agriculture sector growth and...
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This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of the real exchange rate (RER) on international trade, economic development and growth. We summarize the main conceptual issues, discuss the relevance of the RER as an instrument of development policy, provide an...
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This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors … policy as tool for poverty reduction should be on approaches that are relatively easy to implement but have a trackrecord of … of poverty reduction, competition policy needs to address the needs of the citizens of poorer societies in their …
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. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household …
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During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality …. Given all of the current challenges facing Haiti, the World Bank Group country partnership framework aims to support the …
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In the present study, our primary concern is to examine the effects of poverty on economic development across the … Brazilian States from 1980 to 2015. Many studies assess the effects of economic growth and economic development on poverty … incidence, but there is almost no one trying to measure the impact of poverty prevalence on economic development. The results of …
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Bolivia's macroeconomic performance in the period 1994 to 1998 is analyzed and compared with the performance in former periods and the performance of other developing countries (grouped according to income, region, and debt status). This allows to assess what has been achieved in Bolivia since...
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