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Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure: Mozambique and Vietnam Compared

Channing Arndt, Andres Garcia, Finn Tarp, and James Thurlow Economic growth typically reduces poverty, but global averages conceal wide variation at...

Journal Article
Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth–poverty accounting and...

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Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and...

Journal Article
Optimized reservoir operation model of regional wind and hydro power integration case study

Part of Journal Special Issue Prospects for Renewable Energy in Africa

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If People were Money

In this paper we elaborate on the findings produced by an applied equilibrium model that is used to calculate the annual efficiency gains from free international migration. These findings suggest that we can expect significant gains from liberalizing...

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If People were Money

Part of Book Poverty, International Migration and Asylum

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