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The Disconcerting Pyramids of Poverty and Inequality of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lopes, Paulo - 2021

Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable income distribution statistics, but should also take into account social conditions. Recent, widely disseminated claims that poverty and inequality have increased over the past...

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Loss-of-Learning and the Post-COVID Recovery in Low-Income Countries

Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022

-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and …

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Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Their Effects on Health Outcomes

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022

This paper examines empirically the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes. We … assemble a comprehensive and novel cross-country database at a daily frequency on vaccinations and various health outcomes (new …’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …

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Recent Dynamics of Crude Oil Prices

Krichene, Noureddine - 2007

Crude oil prices have been on a run-up spree in recent years. Their dynamics were characterized by high volatility, high intensity jumps, and strong upward drift, indicating that oil markets were constantly out-of-equilibrium. An explanation of the oil price process in terms of the underlying...

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When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence

Kraay, Aart - 2006

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I...

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Small Island States in the Pacific : The Tyranny of Distance

Becker, Chris - 2012

This paper seeks to document key characteristics of small island states in the Pacific. It restricts itself to a limited number of indicators which are macro-orientated - population, fertility of land, ability to tap into economies of scale, income, and geographic isolation. It leaves aside...

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Consumption Based Estimates of Urban Chinese Growth

Chamon, Marcos - 2014

This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households in 1993–2005. Our estimates, based on Engel curves for food consumption, indicate an average per capita income growth of 6.8 percent per year in 1993–2005. This figure is...

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Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal

Kireev, Aleksej P. - 2013

The paper examines Senegal's growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducingand distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help makegrowth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in the last two decades,but poverty reduction has slowed...

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The Quality of the Recent High-Growth Episode in Sub-Saharan Africa

Martinez, Marcelo - 2013

episodes? (ii) has this growth had an impact on socially desirable outcomes, for example, improvements in health, education and …

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Household Consumption Volatility and Poverty Risk : Case Studies from South Africa and Tanzania

Bellon, Matthieu - 2020

Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g....

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