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The main contribution of the paper is to provide a framework within which the impacts of China's economic expansion on … poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six …
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Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …
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This document was prepared in the context of the Program for the "Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean" (ISLC/MECOVI). Bolivia ranks among Latin America's so-called "early adjusters". While Bolivia's economic reforms, which began in...
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rural development (agricultural growth, patterns of growth and rural poverty) for ten Latin American countries over 1985 … reduce rural poverty. …
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This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to …
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(Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas …
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Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that … and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on microfinance and poverty. The view of microcredit that emerges is …
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The last Public Expenditure Review for Ecuador (PER) was produced in 1993. More than a decade later, the purpose of this report is to provide the Ecuadorian authorities with the World Bank's and Inter-American Development Bank's joint comprehensive account of their diagnoses and recommendations...
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Experience from the 1990s has led to a poverty reduction agenda that, on top of promoting economic growth, addresses …
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of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …
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