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Economic Growth and equality of opportunity

Peragine, Vito; Palmisano, Flaviana; Brunori, Paolo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

The paper proposes an approach to understand the relationship between inequality and economic growth obtained by … dynamics of specific groups of the population and to infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity … recent crisis suffered by Italy from both the income inequality and opportunity inequality perspectives. …

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The growth report and new structural economics

Lin, Justin Yifu; Monga, Celestin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010

Despite its heavy human, financial, and economic cost, the recent global recession provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the knowledge from several decades of growth research, draw policy lessons from the experience of successful countries, and explore new approaches going forward. In an...

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Thailand's growth path : from recovery to prosperity

Richter, Kaspar - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

Thailand is one of the most successful developing countries. After decades of rapid growth, the economy rebounded quickly from the 1997-98 Asian crisis and is set to continue its expansion into the future. Nevertheless, there are doubts about the resilience of the Thai economy. The country...

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Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds

Easterly, William - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

Analysis of decade-long growth rates in all countries shows a striking regularity: episodes of rapid growth are limited largely to a middle range of initial income; neither very poor nor very rich countries experienced rapid growth. Episodes of negative growth are limited to low and middle-income...

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How much do distortions affect growth?

Easterly, William; DEC - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993

The author presents a simple endogenous growth model (with two types of capital) that shows the sizable long-run effects on growth of distortionary policies. The model applies to many different types of distortions of relative prices common in developing countries - for example, price controls,...

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Patterns of long term growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Arbache, Jorge Saba; Page, John - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

Using the most recent purchasing power parity data for 44 sub-Saharan African countries, this paper examines the characteristics of long run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors investigate the following issues: cross-country income structure, income convergence, the country level...

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Growth trends in the developing world : country forecasts and determinants

Ianchovichina, Elena; Kacker, Pooja - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

The authors present real per capita GDP growth forecasts for all developing countries for the period 2005-14. For 55 of these countries, representing major world regions and accounting for close to 80 percent of the developing world's GDP, they forecast the growth effects of the main forces...

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Africa's growth tragedy : a retrospective, 1960-89

Easterly, William; Levine, Ross - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1995

Africa's economic history since 1960 fits the classical definition of tragedy: potential unfulfilled with disastrous consequences. The authors use one mehthodology - cross-country regressions - to account for sub-Saharan Africa's growth performance over the past 30 years and to suggest policies...

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Trade structure and growth

Lederman, Daniel; Maloney, William F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Lederman and Maloney examine the empirical relationships between trade structure and economic growth, particularly the influence of natural resource abundance, export concentration, and intra-industry trade. They test the robustness of these relationships across proxies, control variables, and...

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Productivity growth and convergence in agriculture and manufacturing

Martin, Will; Mitra, Devashish - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

The authors examine the growth and convergence of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing in a large sample of countries spanning many levels of development over the period 1967-1992. There is a widely held but rarely tested view that the rate of growth in agricultural...

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