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-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …
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consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track … benefit from growth, except in Tanzania where growth is driven by the skill-intensive sectors. We also find significant losers … from growth in Tanzania where the rate of inflation is very high compared to the other countries. Our methodology finds …
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This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employmentopportunities, however, it … fails tobring the level of poverty to a level roughly comparable to what is found in the region and toreduce inequality … does very little to curb income inequality. Using official data fromvarious local sources compiled by the National Bureau …
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consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water …, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By using the data collected by Afrobarometer in Tanzania, we are able to create …
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consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to … economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978 …
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, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our 'best case' scenario of accelerated growth and … goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to …'s poorest but rapidly rising region. We find that under plausible assumptions on consumption growth and redistribution …
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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …
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decomposition of poverty and inequality in 2000–2018 using official national household surveys. We find the growth since 2012 …, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas …-poor. Finally, the overall trends in the quality of growth and its contribution and that of redistribution to poverty adjustments …
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