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Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the … non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it … proposed based exclusively on the redistributional component of poverty-gap changes obtained through an exact decomposition. It …
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specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a cross-sectional perspective for poverty measurement, early …’s treatment of mobility encompasses both the gain of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency …
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able to achieve inclusive growth as dependency ratio, poverty and depletion of natural capital is very high. Also, health … incidence of poverty to the barest minimum to ensure that growth becomes inclusive. …
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The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …
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Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole … or no success in reducing poverty, many have had significant achievements. The paper argues that inter … into poverty reduction. Since the 1990s (when poverty data are available) the distinction in terms of poverty reduction can …
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its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
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Tanzania fails to bring the level of poverty to a level roughly comparable to what is found in the region and to reduce …
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index of inequality elasticity of poverty. The study puts forward a scenario matrix to hypothesize the four qualities of … growth according to its interactions with inequality and poverty. This model is useful for developing countries that lack GDP … poverty measures. …
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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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This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that regardless of which of the two official … poverty lines we use, we see a steady decline in poverty in all states and for all social and religious groups ….Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004–2005 and 2009–2010 also led to an accelerated decline in poverty rates. Moreover, the …
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