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Making work pay in Madagascar : employment, growth, and poverty reduction
Hoftijzer, Margo - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521372
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Making Work Pay in Madagascar : Employment, Growth, and Poverty Reduction
Hoftijzer, Margo; Paci, Pierella - 2012
There is little doubt that economic growth contributes significantly to poverty reduction; however, countries clearly … differ in the degree to which income growth translates into reduced levels of poverty. Although cross-country estimates … suggest that differences in the responsiveness of poverty to income growth account for a small fraction of overall differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561323
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Making work pay in Madagascar : employment, growth, and poverty reduction
Hoftijzer, Margo - 2008
employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012673853
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Poverty, inequality and labor markets in Africa : a descriptive overview
Bhorat, Haroon - In: Growth and development in Africa, (pp. 77-104). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997026
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Policy Options for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil : Can Micro-Simulations Help?
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2016
-simulations. The first family of micro-simulations decomposes required poverty changes into a change in the mean and a reduction in … their interpretation.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748352
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258036
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Has economic growth in Balkan Countries been pro-poor in the 2012-2017 period?
Zwierzchowski, Jan; Panek, Tomasz - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 76-92
The study investigates whether economic growth in the Balkan countries was pro-poor in the most recent period. We also try to establish to what extent various measures of pro-poorness of economic growth produce consistent and comparable results. Firstly, concepts of pro-poor growth are defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013280000
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Social security and fighting poverty in Tunisia
Khemili, Hasna; Belloumi, Mounir - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17
The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849813
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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540660
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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540743