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Indian economy shows high levels of growth and per capita income in recent years accompanied by an unprecedented shift … of labour from agriculture to non-agriculture during the last decade. Reallocation of labour from ‘traditional’ to … change in employment in India that results from the exclusionary nature of the growth process hardly approximates the …
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of urbanization is associated with higher economic growth, lower level of poverty and higher extent of inequality in … growth, and urban equity measured by urban poverty and inequality in India. In addition, it reviews the different urban … higher share of national GDP by reducing urban poverty and inequality. …
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concepts and indices to explore the growth, poverty and inequality nexus in Indonesia over the period 2002-2012. We find a … inequality and accelerate the pace of economic growth and poverty reduction. …This paper decomposes changes in poverty into growth and redistribution components, and employs several pro-poor growth …
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based and nutrition-based measure of poverty. The dynamic model exhibits the possibility of a higher rate of accumulation … coupled with an inadequate nutritional intake, relative to a situation where there is no such concern for status. Thus, growth … with malnutrition may also imply a conflict between different measures of poverty. Both the models point toward a direct …
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’s main goal is poverty reduction, not economic growth. In this paper, aid’s impact on poverty, growth, and inequality are …, are used. The main finding is that economic growth reduces poverty, but also aid, although less than growth, and not under …Recent studies and approaches to foreign aid effectiveness have concentrated on its impact on economic growth. But aid …
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This analytical review explores the links between growth, poverty and inequality in Sudan for the period 1956 … GDP per capita growth- and inequality as measured by Gini coefficient (the growth, inequality and poverty triangle …) whether growth, inequality and poverty are cointegrated, ii( whether growth Granger causes inequality, iii) and whether …
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Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil’s largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these … measures of inequality, along with contemporary covariates and other historical variables I assess the impact of colonial …
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distribution. We find that economic growth is good for the rich in the sense that the mean income of the top decile of the … growth is really good for the really rich. We also find that during economic downturns, the average income of top earners …
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In general, most countries of the former Eastern bloc have experienced poor growth performance and large increases in … income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been … Poland, which has outstripped other transition economies in terms of growth performance, while at the same time experiencing …
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on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate … growth but (b) that the addition to growth depends inversely on the level of wealth inequality prior to opening. These … findings confirm the general importance for rapid growth in developing countries of reducing inequalities of opportunity. …
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