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, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …
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Many studies on growth impact on poverty reduction have been conducted in Indonesia using various economic sectors and … conducted using spatial analysis method to measure the impact of districts growth on poverty reduction in East Java. The … estimation of growth elasticity of poverty is based on Ravallion's model (2001) by considering the presence of growth and poverty …
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contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. First, it explores the factors …
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Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …
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mobile banking and inclusive development (quality of growth, inequality and poverty) among individuals in 93 developing … development, namely: quality of growth, inequality and poverty. As a main policy implication, encouraging mobile banking … applications would play a substantial role in responding to the challenges of immiserizing growth, inequality and poverty in …
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fails tobring the level of poverty to a level roughly comparable to what is found in the region and toreduce inequality …
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The study investigated the linkages between education, poverty and economic growth in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and … education and economic growth, while poverty is found to be inversely related to economic growth for these countries of South … Asia. The study recommends that each sample country should adopt poverty reduction and education enhancing policies to …
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addressed in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with growth and poverty. Though the intertwined relationship among … growth, poverty and inequality has already been hypothesized by Kuznets (1955), it is still questioned by many other scholars …. To reveal the relationship among growth, poverty and inequality in the aftermath of MDGs’ failures for better …
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Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm growth was least … effective at reducing poverty in states where initial conditions were poor in terms of rural development and human resources … economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty.The elasticities of measured poverty to farm …
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Empirical work in Bangladesh shows that growth reduces poverty in both urban and rural areas - and is associated with … poverty more. Most empirical work on how growth affects poverty and inequality has been based on international panel data sets … Bangladesh, where regional panel estimates indicate that growth reduces poverty in both urban and rural areas. Growth is …
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