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growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …
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growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766006
growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343192
its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
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The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of agriculture in GDP has declined, while the significance of industry and service sectors has increased. These structural changes have been associated with persistent challenges such as...
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's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …
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The impact of income inequality on economic growth is dependent on several factors, including the time horizon considered, the initial level of income and its initial distribution. Yet, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it is also pertinent to consider the effects of the...
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Since the pioneer work of Williamson, several authors have shown that urban concentration in a country tends to increase during the economic take-off and the industrialisation, and to decrease beyond a given per capita income of about 5000 $ (of 1985). This article provides an insight, using the...
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The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...
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rural poverty, and eventually in urban poverty. …
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