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growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …
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's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income … inequality increased until the late 1980s, then gradually declined, reaching a level in 2017 that was well below the 1981 level …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends …
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …
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its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
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In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
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consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very … income, inequality and poverty over time, and to explain why they evolved in the way they did. We relate changes in … inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …
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prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes … contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income … important domestic trade-offs between inequality reduction and poverty alleviation. …
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standards. The programme addresses typical causes of poverty among ethnic minorities and inequality between these groups and the …Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities … provide an overview of the programme and examine the drivers of its success in reducing poverty and bridging the majority …
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