Growth
- Consultation document seeks reader opinion on Commission for Africa suggestions
- Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- This consultation document on ODI's Commission for Africa was an effort to elicit reader opinions on possible areas for Commission action. It presents various ideas and proposals that were discussed by Commissioners at a meeting in Ad...
- Private sector must take responsibility for helping to reduce poverty
- United Nations Development Programme, 2004
- This paper reflects the meetings of the UN's Commission on the Private Sector and Development. The authors explore how the private sector can help reduce widespread poverty; the Commission believes that the primary responsibility for ...
- The importance of happiness and well-being for poverty reduction
- C. Graham / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004
- This paper looks at the relationship between globalisation, poverty and inequality by subjective well being or happiness studies, as well as the literature on the economics of happiness. The studies in Latin America and Russia ...
- Impacts of globalisation on inequality and household risk
- E. Ligon / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004
- This paper looks at the risks of globalisation and their impacts on poor households, by examining the variation in consumption expenditures across countries. The study shows how changes in the last fifty years in Lorenz curves can be ...
- Assessing the impact of credit referencing on the poor
- A. de Janvry; E. Sadoulet; C. McIntosh; B. Wydick / BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2003
- This report investigates the development of the microfinance sector and the penetration of credit reporting systems in Peru, Guatemala, and Bolivia, where they are quite widespread. The three countries are covered individually: ...
- Livestock, and all natural resource topics, need to be given greater attention in PRSPs
- R. Blench; R. Chapman; T. Slaymaker / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003
- This paper evaluates references to livestock in PRSPs. Five case studies were examined, as well as data from 49 other countries. Researchers questioned: whether documents were based on a realistic understanding of the c...
- Political stability and regime type significantly affect economic growth
- J. Nkurunziza; R. Bates / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2003
- Part of the larger comparative project on "Explaining Growth in Africa," run by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), this paper reviews empirical growth literature in order to examine the importance of politics in explaini...
- Paraguayan PMP flexible for the provision of some particular benefits, rigid on the approval of general ones
- J. Molinas; A. Pérez-Liñán; S. Saiegh 2004
- This paper examines why, despite Paraguay’s deteriorating macroeconomic conditions between 1996 and 2000, no major reforms have been implemented in recent years. Why has it been so difficult to modify public policies in Paraguay?...
- Brazil is in only relatively stable political equilibrium
- L. Alston; M.A. Melo; B. Mueller; C. Pereira 2004
- This paper examines policymaking processes in Brazil. The purpose of this paper is to explain the outer features of public policies, such as stability vs. volatility, flexibility vs. rigidity, coordination vs. coherence, decisiveness ...
- Despite slow growth, African economic reforms have been at least partially successful
- A. Harding; H. Söderbom; F. Teal / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004
- This paper examines why African economies have remained largely unsuccessful despite competition-enhancing economic reforms. In this paper, the authors consider the roles of learning, competition and market imperfections in determinin...
- Livestock, and all natural resource topics, need to be given greater attention in PRSPs
- R. Blench; R. Chapman; T. Slaymaker / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003
- This paper evaluates references to livestock in PRSPs. Five case studies were examined, as well as data from 49 other countries. Researchers questioned: whether documents were based on a realistic understanding of the c...
- Political stability and regime type significantly affect economic growth
- J. Nkurunziza; R. Bates / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2003
- Part of the larger comparative project on "Explaining Growth in Africa," run by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), this paper reviews empirical growth literature in order to examine the importance of politics in explaini...
- Paraguayan PMP flexible for the provision of some particular benefits, rigid on the approval of general ones
- J. Molinas; A. Pérez-Liñán; S. Saiegh 2004
- This paper examines why, despite Paraguay’s deteriorating macroeconomic conditions between 1996 and 2000, no major reforms have been implemented in recent years. Why has it been so difficult to modify public policies in Paraguay?...
- Brazil is in only relatively stable political equilibrium
- L. Alston; M.A. Melo; B. Mueller; C. Pereira 2004
- This paper examines policymaking processes in Brazil. The purpose of this paper is to explain the outer features of public policies, such as stability vs. volatility, flexibility vs. rigidity, coordination vs. coherence, decisiveness ...
- Despite slow growth, African economic reforms have been at least partially successful
- A. Harding; H. Söderbom; F. Teal / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004
- This paper examines why African economies have remained largely unsuccessful despite competition-enhancing economic reforms. In this paper, the authors consider the roles of learning, competition and market imperfections in determinin...
- Is there evidence that the incidence of small and medium enterprises reduce poverty?
- T. Beck; A. Demirguc-Kunt; R. Levine / World Bank, 2004
- This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labour in the total manufacturing labour force. ...
- Is it really that simple to relate high growth with poverty reduction?: evidence from Indonesia
- T. Tambunan / Center for Industrial Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of Trisakti, Indonesia, 2004
- Faced with poverty and economic stagnation caused by bad macroeconomic management and domestic political instability, the government of Indonesia adopted import substitution strategies to develop the capacity of domestic industries in...
- Experience in Brazil with stabilisation programmes
- J.S. Arbache / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004
- This paper discusses Brazil’s attempts to improve sustainable growth through stabilisation programmes over the last twenty years, and more recently, structural reforms in line with the Washington Consensus Agenda. The author prop...
- Economic liberalisation has failed to benefit Swazi workers
- G. Tati / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
- This paper addresses the question of why poverty is so pervasive in Swaziland despite substantial economic growth over the last several years. The author examines how macroeconomic developments have impacted on poverty within cross-bo...
- Investigating the growth and redistribution effects of poverty in Cameroon
- M.F Baye / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
- This paper investigates the growth and redistribution effects of changes in poverty using Cameroon’s household surveys. Using cooperative game theory, the author develops an exact decomposition framework based on the Shapley Valu...
- World Growth
- World growth organisation bringing balance to the debate over trade, globalisation, and sustainable development
- Africa Commission
- Danish Africa Commission to improve economic growth and emplyment
- Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region (RiPPLE)
- A focus on water supply and sanitation challenges in Ethiopia
- The Prosperity Initiative (PI)
- Eradicating poverty through market forces
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
- Economic research centre at the University of Oxford
