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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as …
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Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to … the promotion of a stronger and sustainable economic growth in Cameroon. …
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Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … reduction for a given growth. It reflects a distributional effect not fully captured by a change in the Gini coefficient …
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This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employmentopportunities, however, it …
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The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By...
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This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employment opportunities, however …
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We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year 2011. Mobile banking entails: 'mobile phones used to pay bills' and 'mobile phones used to receive/send money', while the modifying policy indicator is the...
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between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year … use of the mobile phones to pay bills: is positively linked to 'quality of growth' in lower-middle income countries (LMIC …
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Despite the large and expanding literature on pro-poor growth, quantitative studies identifying policy levers leading … to pro-poor growth remain scarce, and this paper addresses this lacuna in the literature. The main driver of rural … poverty reduction shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural growth in the Philippines, but agricultural investments can be …
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