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growth rates and substantial poverty reduction, with the share of the population living in poverty declining from 67.9 to 57 ….1 percent. Poverty in urban areas was reduced faster than in rural areas, as most of the investment benefited the manufacturing …
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, show that trade liberalization reduces poverty in Senegal, particularly in rural areas. While the fall in the relative …
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, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. Integration into the global economy in the 1990s brought increased … paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract …
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the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty, and income distribution. However, conventional models … ignore the channels linking technical change in agriculture, trade openness, and poverty. This study seeks to incorporate … poverty and equity. The analysis uses the Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Model (LCSFM) and the metafrontier function to …
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the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty and income distribution. Conventional models ignore … however the channels linking technical change in agriculture, trade openness and poverty. This study seeks to incorporate … poverty and equity. The analysis uses the Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Model (LCSFM) and the metafrontier function to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465408
A developed financial system is essential in a market economy. This paper studies the importance of the development of financial markets in general, and the stock market in particular, from the review of existing literature in the area of the relationship between financial development and...
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Many Caribbean financial systems are relatively well developed for their size but benefits are concentrated in a small part of the population. In several large countries, the financial development levels are below what is warranted by that country's own macroeconomic fundamentals. SMEs, in...
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Among reforms undertaken in many developing countries it was assumed that pension funds strengthened the development of the financial system and thus economic growth. However, the study of the existing dynamic relationships between these realities and the empirical evidence remains limited. We...
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Sources of economic growth in Ghana have not been clear. Several studies have contributed to the finance and growth literature with little attention on remittances and the joint effect of financial sector development and remittances. This paper uses macrodata to examine the linkages between...
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This paper aims to study the impacts of financial development, urbanization, and globalization on income inequality in the People's Republic of China. It applies the regression-based inequality decomposition approach on a panel dataset, which is aggregated from a unique database of financial...
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