We examine the growth of mobile phone technology over the past decade and consider its potential impacts upon quality … development outcomes, both as a positive externality of the communication sector and as part of mobile phone-based development … somewhat limited. In addition, mobile phone technology cannot serve as the “silver bullet” for development in sub …

for open questions in labor, growth, international, and development economics. …

In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land … appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with …

in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the … existing cross-country empirical evidence on the effects of inequality on growth and the extent to which the poorest in society … benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

Due in part to 40 years of cyclical violence, economic growth in Burundi has remained well below the sub-Saharan Africa … the Government drive the changes needed to achieve sustainable growth. This chapter provides an overview of past and …

Due in part to 40 years of cyclical violence, economic growth in Burundi has remained well below the sub-Saharan Africa … the Government drive the changes needed to achieve sustainable growth. This chapter provides an overview of past and …

The paper addresses one of the key features and expectations of thePRGF: are budgets more pro-poor and pro-growth …

A widely accepted criterion for pro-poorness of an income growth pattern is that it should reduce a (chosen) measure of … has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a … lognormal world, growth is pro-poor in the above sense if and only if it is inequality-reducing. It follows that lognormality …

more rural branches in Indian states with lower initial financial development. The reverse was true outside this period. We …