Productivity Growth in Small Middle-Income Countries -- 5 Financial Inclusion and Stability in Africa's Middle-Income Countries …

productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that … productivity growth in manufacturing accounts for poverty reduction in developing Asia, but not in sub-Saharan Africa. …This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC …

in part by productivity growth and increasing competitiveness of agriculture (i.e., declining cost per unit output … income. Nonetheless, poverty incidence among agricultural households has been falling, with an acceleration in the decline … since 2012. Consistent with rising income, poverty among agricultural households has been falling, with the pace of decline …