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The individual poverty incidence of growthThe canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after growth...
income mobility Poverty Dynamics Pro-poorBlog
The ins and outs of African industrialization: UNU-WIDER provides open access to a wealth of information
The question ‘why is there so little industrialization in Africa?’ has been a key focus of UNU-WIDER researchers and research partners for the last decade...
Industrialization Poverty JobsWorking Paper
Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in IndiaProductivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine...
Intergenerational Mobility Inequality GrowthBook Chapter
Trade in services: Opening markets to create opportunitiesFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Services Productivity GrowthBook Chapter
Telecommunication and ICT-based services tradeFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Telecommunication Growth InvestmentBook Chapter
Industries without smokestacks and structural transformation in Africa: OverviewFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
industry Growth InvestmentBook
Industries without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa ReconsideredThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
industry Growth InvestmentWorking Paper
What might explain today’s conflicting narratives on global inequality?How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one often hears? This paper reviews the arguments and evidence...
Global inequality Measurement Household surveysPolicy Brief
Industries without smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa reconsideredOur research shows that structural change in Africa is relying on a new set of economic activities, called ‘industries without smokestacks’, created by recent technological changes and a changing global market place...
industry Growth InvestmentWorking Paper
Viet Nam: The dragon that rose from the ashesThis study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations , published in 1968...
Growth Poverty Inequality