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Ernesto Pernia
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Poverty, Growth, and Institutions in Developing Asia
The theme of this book is that economic growth is key, but institutions and other national and subnational attributes matter as well. They are critical to explaining differences in social development and poverty reduction across countries and subnational areas that cannot be accounted for by growth alone. The book concludes that a more complete strategy needs to consider various institutional factors at the national and subnational levels to achieve rapid and sustained poverty reduction. Indeed, paying attention to these factors will benefit both growth and poverty reduction.
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Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Viet Nam
Viet Nam has achieved remarkable poverty reduction and broad-based economic growth appears to be the key.
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Pro-Poor Growth: What is It and How is It Important?
Asia's experience strongly suggests that rapid and sustained economic growth leads to significant poverty reduction. This seems consistent with the analysis of global cross-national data showing that the incomes of the poor move proportionately one-forone with overall average incomes (Dollar and Kraay 2001). From a policy standpoint, an implication might be that poverty reduction requires nothing more than simply promoting rapid growth.
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Economic Openness and Regional Development in the Philippines
This paper attempts to address the general issue whether or not economic openness is beneficial to regional development and poverty reduction in the Philippines.
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Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction - What is the Connection?
Rural infrastructure investments can lead to higher farm and nonfarm productivity, employment and income opportunities, and increased availability of wage goods, thereby reducing poverty by raising mean income and consumption.
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Revisiting Growth and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia: What Do Subnational Data Show?
This paper examines the key determinants of poverty reduction in Indonesia during the 1990s and uses district-level data to analyze the basic growth–poverty relationship.
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Is Economic Openness Good for Regional Development and Poverty Reduction? The Philippines
Using data on the Philippines' 14 regions over the period 1988-2000, this brief illustrates that economic openness appears to be good for regional development and, indirectly, poverty reduction.
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Poverty Reduction and the Role of Institutions in Developing Asia
Institutions affect poverty both directly and indirectly. They influence government policies, which in turn influence growth and distributional outcomes, which then affect the pace of poverty reduction.
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Probing Beneath Gross-national Averages: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Philippines
This paper attempts to probe beneath cross-country averages by analyzing provincial data on the poverty–growth nexus in the Philippines.
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What Else Besides Growth Matters to Poverty Reduction? Philippines
This brief summarizes the results of empirical research on the determinants of poverty reduction in the Philippines from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.