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Gini coefficient and to increase average income, growth, and income of the poor. However, some non-linearites are detected …
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also small relative to the variation in growth in average incomes, implying that the latter accounts for most of the … variation in income growth in the poorest quintiles. These findings hold across most regions and time periods and when … conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the …
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Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason for why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirical evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian central bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a...
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the transmission of the growth from the North to the South through international markets, both through trade and through … particular, I shall present a set of results that contradict the statement that he growth of the North is necessary or even at … all favorable to the growth of the South, which is central to much thinking about the New International Economy Order. I …
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In the last decades there has been increased interest in studying the impact of inequality on growth. Most of the … recent literature points to a negative impact of inequality on future growth but there are also models that argue in favor of … a positive relationship or a non linear one. A possible channel through which inequality may impact on growth comes from …
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Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745415
In general, most countries of the former Eastern bloc have experienced poor growth performance and large increases in … Poland, which has outstripped other transition economies in terms of growth performance, while at the same time experiencing …
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Growth is good for the poor” is a ubiquitous statement and one generally backed by theory, research and history. In … the long-run, growth reduces poverty. Yet, growth in output - per se - is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition … the relation between growth and poverty in Kazakhstan, a country that experienced rapid growth and poverty reduction in …
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years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example …, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly dependent on knowledge and technology, while the economic costs of …
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also small relative to the variation in growth in average incomes, implying that the latter accounts for most of the … variation in income growth in the poorest quintiles. These findings hold across most regions and time periods and when … conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788629