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This paper analyzes the relationship between growth, poverty and income distribution using household data for Colombia … for the years 1996 to 2004. We study the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty by following the Poverty … Equivalent Growth Rate (PEGR) methodology developed by Kakwani and Khandker, which considers both the magnitude of growth and the …
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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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By comparison with most African countries, post-apartheid South Africa appears to be characterised by growth …‐oriented cooperation between state and business. Economic growth has remained weak, however, and income poverty persists as the economy … continues down an inegalitarian growth path that fails to reduce unemployment and thus has little effect on poverty. This paper …
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Can corporate sustainability aid growth, create value and actions on environmental protection? The answer can be … positive. But at the same time, level of development of the country, poverty etc. also needs to be factored in while …
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Innovative Development Finance (IDF). Remittance is considered as IDF in the face of declining flow of external resources, mainly … idea on how to mobilize such private flows as development finance, through the public–private partnership (PPP) model. …
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and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular … development in Africa. Furthermore, defeating a terrorist network requires African nations to work with international partners to … mighty through GOD in pulling down strongholds and demonic imaginations. As a road-map to sustainable development, the paper …
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, Growth, and Welfare provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of public capital in development … productivity of the poor. How should these policies be sequenced and implemented to spur growth? Would a large, front …-loaded increase in public infrastructure investment yield the desired growth-promoting effect? Taking a rigorous look at this kind of …
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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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, Growth, and Welfare provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of public capital in development … productivity of the poor. How should these policies be sequenced and implemented to spur growth? Would a large, front …-loaded increase in public infrastructure investment yield the desired growth-promoting effect? Taking a rigorous look at this kind of …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets … destinations, and +0.74 to rich destinations. This relationship between emigration flows and economic growth is highly robust to …
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