Essays about: "poverty elasticity of growth"

Found 5 essays containing the words poverty elasticity of growth.

  1. 1. Regional Disparities in Agricultural Transformation, Growth and Poverty Reduction: Brazil in a historical perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Bertha Rohenkohl Cruz; [2016]
    Keywords : economic development; economic growth; structural transformation; poverty reduction; Brazil; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper aims to improve the understanding of economic development in Brazil since the 1950s by studying the relationship between structural transformation and poverty reduction at the state-level. Results from a modified shift-share analysis and analysis of an indicator of agricultural transformation suggest that structural transformation is a rather heterogeneous process within the country, highlighting the importance of a regional perspective. READ MORE

  3. 2. Impact of Foreign Capital inflows on Economic Growth and Self-employment in Ethiopia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Emmanuel James Conable Nweke; [2015]
    Keywords : DAC; Economic growth; Ethiopia; FDI; Poverty reduction; Self-employment; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper examines the impact of foreign capital inflows on economic growth and self-employment in Ethiopia; using self-employment as a proxy for poverty reduction. It employs a descriptive statistics in the first part and Granger causality Wald tests in the second part. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Effects of Growth and Inequality on Poverty in Honduras

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Larsson; Sofie Sjöborg; [2010]
    Keywords : inequality-growth trade-off index; poverty elasticity of inequality; poverty elasticity of growth; poverty; Honduras; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis studies and identifies effects of income growth and income inequality on poverty in Honduras. A Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) was implemented in Honduras in 2001 with the goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Since carrying out of PRS, poverty and inequality has only decreased slightly and growth in income has been small. READ MORE

  5. 4. Aid required to halving poverty in Tanzania until 2015

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, statistik och informatik

    Author : Anders Johansson; Joakim Lindberg; [2007]
    Keywords : growth; poverty; Tanzania; elasticity; growth-poverty elasticity; Millenium Development Goals; savings; investment; aid; Africa; crowding-out; Tanzania; fattigdom; tillväxt; bistånd; elasticitet; investeringar; sparande; Afrika;

    Abstract : Halving poverty until 2015 is something that all member states of United Nation have agreed up on by adopting the Millennium Development Goals MDG in 1991. The question asked in this paper is how much aid is needed in Tanzania, to reduce poverty by half. READ MORE

  6. 5. Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries : Is Growth in Democracies More Pro-Poor than in Non-Democracies?

    University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Mesterton; [2006]
    Keywords : Growth; Poverty; Democracy; Inequality; Poverty-Reducing Policies;

    Abstract : Economists today agree that growth is fundamental in reducing poverty. But the strength of the relationship between the two has been debated, and there is a lack of satisfactory explanations to why the growth elasticity of poverty differs between countries. READ MORE