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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …
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his paper examines the importance of achieving high agricultural growth as a means of accelerating Ethiopiaâ …€™s economic transformation. The conclusions are that a high rate of agricultural growth has farreaching positive implications for … increasing employment and accelerating poverty reduction. An agricultural GDP of six percent is feasible through a high growth …
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""Ghana’s Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II; November, 2005) which spans the period 2006 – 2009 … I to a more growth-oriented strategy. The development agenda of the country, as set out in GPRS II is now geared towards … achieving middle income status by 2015. In other words, accelerating economic growth is to be given priority. This growth …
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Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The … require Ghana to double its per capita income over the next decade. In this paper we explore the growth experiences of other … evaluate sources of accelerated growth and their contributions to overall growth and transformation... The authors conclude …
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"We use two rounds of surveys, taken in 2000 and 2008 in the Zhili Township children's garment cluster in Zhejiang Province, to examine in depth the evolution of this industrial cluster. Firm size has grown on average in terms of output and employment, and increasing divergence in firm sizes has...
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, the relationship between windfall profits, growth, and households' welfare is less straightforward than what the simple … both productivity-enhancing investments and an oil fund is crucial to achieving shared growth and macroeconomic stability …
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between dietary diversity and nutrient adequacy in developing countries? Between dietary diversity and child growth? 3. What …
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between dietary diversity and nutrient adequacy in developing countries? Between dietary diversity and child growth? 3. What …
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