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Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country
Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration...
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Poverty, Inequality, and Unethical Behavior of the Strong
Hillman, Arye L. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
behavior of the strong toward the weak, in preconditions for economic development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826516
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Income Inequality During China's Economic Transition
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John; Wang, Sangui - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005
This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns...
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Economic Liberalization and Rural Land and Labour Markets in India: A Study
Gandhi, Vasant P. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
The paper examines the rural land and labour markets in the context of economic liberalization in India. Land and labour are the two fundamental resources available to the rural people for income generation. The access to land and to employment for labour become basic determinants of well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805148
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The poverty problem and the industrialization solution
Alvarez, Sharon; Barney, Jay; Newman, Arielle - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 32 (2015) 1, pp. 23-37
<Para ID="Par5">Despite decades of effort, abject poverty remains a serious problem in many countries around the world. The effects of five approaches to poverty alleviation—foreign aid, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, base of the pyramid initiatives, and the establishment of property rights among the...</para>
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Cameroon; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The growth rate of agriculture in Cameroon was estimated at 3.3 percent in 2006, compared with 2.7 percent in 2005. This is owing to increased activity in the food agriculture sector (4.3 percent) and in forestry and logging (4.0 percent). Livestock farming and fisheries, on the one hand, grew...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245018
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Poverty reduction and sustainable development
Mestrum, Francine - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2003
with the priority given to poverty reduction in the development thinking of the international community of today. The … between poverty reduction and sustainable development, since poverty is used both as a dependent and as an independent … the 'naturalization' of development thinking in its economic and social dimensions and shows how this affects the policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011011596
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Transferts Financiers des Migrants et développement en Afrique subsaharienne
TCHAMANBÉ DJINÉ Louise, TDL; MIAMO WENDJI Clovis, MWC - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
-Saharan African countries. Workers’ Remittances seem to affect the economic development of recipient countries in the same way as … Official Development Aid and Foreign Direct Investment. To achieve this objective, we use the fixed effects panel regression … allocate a substantial percentage of the fruits derived from this growth to investment in the development of human capital …
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Climate change and the growth of the livestock sector in developing countries
Thornton, Philip; Gerber, Pierre - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15 (2010) 2, pp. 169-184
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624690
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The Cost of Poverty Alleviation Transfer Programs: A Comparative Analysis of Three Programs in Latin America
Caldés, Natalia; Coady, David; Maluccio, John A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
A common criticism of antipoverty programs is that the high share of administrative (nontransfer) costs substantially reduces their effectiveness. Yet there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical evidence on program costs. This study proposes and implements a replicable methodology for a...
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