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Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Nabena, David; … - 2015

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …

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Aid, growth, and jobs

Fields, Gary - 2012

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...

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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa

Page, John; Shimeles, Abebe - 2014

to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …

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Dimensions of African inequality

Bigsten, Arne - 2014

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...

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Incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya: A long-term perspective

Bigsten, Arne; Manda, Damiano Kulundu; Mwabu, Germano; … - 2014

inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …

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The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decades

Hou, Feng - 2017

human capital, but they had high employment rates, and over time they closed their initial large earnings gap with other …

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Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua

Alaniz, Enrique; Espino, Alma; Gindling, Thomas - 2019

We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...

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