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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
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Morocco and Tunisia have both achieved robust economic growth over the last 30 years by utilizing prudent economic … Morocco and Tunisia have transformed both from economically challenged debt-burdened nations into technologically advanced …, diversified and thriving middle-class nations. From 1962 to the Present Day, Morocco has averaged a GDP growth rate of 5.8% and …
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contrast the impacts of the Morocco-EU free trade area (FTA) to multilateral trade liberalization on Morocco’s economy …. Simulation results show that the FTA agreement is likely to have adverse effects on Morocco due to: (a) deteriorating terms of … liberalization scenario along the lines of those proposed under the Doha Development Round and find this more beneficial to Morocco …
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countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries … structural malaise that traps them in a vicious circle of poverty. They advocate the radical reshaping of the international …
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In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …
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Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the population and reduce poverty. The poverty head count index is ….6 percentage point reduction due to growth and a 1.2 percentage point increase due to inequality change.Since poverty is most … better business environment and infrastructure. The country needs a new trading arrangement with the European Union. Poverty …
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This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
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market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposedto the forces of … globalization to test whether minimum wages are an effective poverty reduction tool in this environment. We find that minimum wage …
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We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on investigating increases in inequality associated with transition and economic development. With a backdrop of perceived improvements in average living standards, we ask whether...
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