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CHINA: REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN POVERTY DISTRIBUTION
SHEN, CHUNLI; ZOU, HENG-FU - In: Division of Labor & Transaction Costs (DLTC) 03 (2008) 01, pp. 17-56
China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the century. It is important to explore why China has such huge disparity in poverty distribution in spite of overall dramatic economic growth and the vast improvement in per capita income. The aim of...
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New Methods for comparing Literacy across Populations - Insights from the Measurement of Poverty
Denny, Kevin - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2000
This paper analyses levels of low literacy across twelve countries using the International Adult Literacy Survey. We go beyond existing work that only looks at the proportions below certain critical levels of literacy. Using methods developed for the measurement of poverty we calculate measures...
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Trade, poverty and food security: A survey of recent research and its implications for East Africa
Lloyd-Ellis, Huw; Nordstrom, Ardyn - 2021
We survey the latest research on the linkages between international trade, regional integration, poverty and food … extensive literature on the impacts of trade reform on poverty outcomes, research on the actual and potential effects of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670896
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Trade, poverty and food security : a survey of recent research and its implications for East Africa
Lloyd-Ellis, Huw; Nordstrom, Ardyn - 2021 - Current version: June 2021
We survey the latest research on the linkages between international trade, regional integration, poverty and food … extensive literature on the impacts of trade reform on poverty outcomes, research on the actual and potential effects of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547891
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Trade and inclusive growth
Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021
claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines …, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and protectionist measures. The paper investigates the conflicting …
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Household impacts of tariffs : data and results from agricultural trade protection
Artuc, Erhan; Porto, Guido G.; Rijkers, Bob - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 35 (2021) 3, pp. 563-585
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Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
Ravallion, Martin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
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Globalization, Literacy Levels, and Economic Development
Bhargava, Alok - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
This paper estimated models for GDP growth rates, poverty levels, and inequality measures for the period 1990 … implying greater inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005060002
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Trade Liberalization, Poverty And Inequality: Evidence From Indian Districts
Topalova, Petia - eSocialSciences - 2005
poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in …Although it is commonly believed that trade liberalization results in higher GDP, little is known about its effects on …
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Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Assessment After 20 Years
Weisbrot, Mark; Lefebvre, Stephan; Sammut, Joseph - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
This paper compares the performance of the Mexican economy with that of the rest of the region over the past 20 years, based on the available economic and social indicators, and with its own past economic performance. Among the results it finds that Mexico ranks 18th out of 20 Latin American...
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