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The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations for Morocco. Both approaches lead to … one of the rare attempts to elicit the growth potential of a reduction in the employment gap in a low-income country. …
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and advocates generalized balanced growth and structural transformation to move Sub-Saharan African countries towards self …
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endogeneity problem in the aid-growth relationship. Evidence from a panel VAR model estimated on the dataset of NDHKM, suggests a …
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I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical … significant contribution in promoting economic growth in the country. This finding is found to be robust across approaches and … specifications. Whilst aid may have been associated with improvement in economic growth in the country, its impact during the period …
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Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a … saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …
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'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa', and consider policy options for escaping economic stagnation. The focus is … on South Africa and South African policies yielding relatively quick dividends in terms of growth and taking the rest of …
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looking forward to a much better future - in terms of both growth and human development - than was deemed possible at the time …
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macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of macroeconomic policy-fiscal and monetary policy together with debt …
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An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …
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