The growth-poverty convergence agenda: Optimizing social expenditures to maximize their impact on agricultural labor productivity, growth, and poverty reduction in Africa PDF Download

Author: Ousmane Badiane, John Ulimwengu
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Ruth Oniang'o
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Yiannis Kountouris
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Timothy B. Sulser, Claudia Ringler, Tingju Zhu, Siwa Msangi, Elizabeth Bryan, Mark W. Rosegrant
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896295982
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Social protection programs—public or private initiatives that aid the poor and protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks—can effectively be used to assist those trapped, or at the risk of being trapped, in chronic poverty. These programs aim to address chronic poverty through redistribution and protect vulnerable households from falling below the poverty line. Although investments in social protection programs are often motivated by equity concerns, they can also contribute to economic growth by, for example, encouraging savings, creating community assets, and addressing market imperfections. Despite their potential and proliferation, not enough is known about social protection programs in Africa. The 2017–2018 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) reduces this knowledge gap by focusing on the potential of such programs on the continent and the corresponding opportunities and challenges. The chapters of the Report highlight the benefits of these programs, not only to their direct recipients but also others in the community through spillover effects. They also underscore the importance of appropriate design and sustainability to fully realize the potential of social protection programs.

Author: Fan, Shenggen
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 080188859X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. Overall, the studies find that investments in agricultural research, infrastructure, and human capital are beneficial in the long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and generating short-run income effects. The book develops a conceptual framework for analyzing public expenditures and their short- and long-run impact on poverty through various channels. It surveys spending trends and analyzes the effect of growing public investment on urban and rural poverty through case studies of India, China, Thailand, and Uganda. And it highlights the advantages of directing spending toward public works programs that engage impoverished peoples rather than using the limited aid money on food subsidies and other passive donations. Featuring discussions about the roles of various social safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty will aid policy makers and encourage further, more analytic study of worldwide poverty reduction programs.

Author: Ms. Valerie Cerra
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1513572660
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Is there a tradeoff between raising growth and reducing inequality and poverty? This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the complex links between growth, inequality, and poverty, with causation going in both directions. The evidence suggests that growth can be effective in reducing poverty, but its impact on inequality is ambiguous and depends on the underlying sources of growth. The impact of poverty and inequality on growth is likewise ambiguous, as several channels mediate the relationship. But most plausible mechanisms suggest that poverty and inequality reduce growth, at least in the long run. Policies play a role in shaping these relationships and those designed to improve equality of opportunity can simultaneously improve inclusiveness and growth.

Author: World Bank;International Monetary Fund
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9781464803369
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity and assesses the state of policies and institutions that are important for achieving them. The report continues to monitor progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Also for the first time, the report includes information about high-income countries. It finds that while gaps in living standards have been closing in many countries, the well-being of households in the bottom 40 percent, as measured by the non-income MDGs such as access to education and health services, remains below that of households in the top 60 percent. The focus of this year's report is on three elements needed to make growth more inclusive and sustainable: investment in human capital that favors the poor, the best use of safety nets, and steps to ensure the environmental sustainability of economic growth. These three elements are imperative to all countries' development strategies, and are also fundamental to global efforts to achieve the twin goals, the MDGs, and the Sustainable Development Goals that will succeed the MDGs. Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 was prepared in collaboration with regional development banks and other multilateral partners.

Author: International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484313186
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper on the Democratic Republic of Congo discusses economic policies and development. The macroeconomic and budget framework has been developed to take into account the effects of sectoral policies to maintain macroeconomic stability, a necessary condition for laying the foundation of economic growth and poverty reduction. It is based on the profile of public spending, the assessment of costs for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2020, and the sector-based economic growth theories taking into account the uncertainties of the international environment and the real potential of the Congolese economy. It is found that it allows for a realistic programming of public spending while highlighting the main budgetary choices proposed by the government.

Author: Gouranga Gopal Das
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Using a Global database, stylized evidences are presented to show that Gini coefficient of income inequality varies across skill cohorts in all the regions. Also, starting from a relatively egalitarian income distribution, growth reduces inequality for the relatively unskilled cohorts for which Gini values are comparatively lower order of magnitude than those for the skilled labors. Another sets of stylized facts show considerable outsourcing does occur especially in developing Asia and Latin America; there are evidences of rapid rise in trade in hi-tech and technology-intensive goods. All these form background for exploring the ripple effect of technology transmission, its capture and role that socio-institutional factors play on income inequality. Nexus between income inequality and technology capture is explored in a global CGE framework. In particular, exogenous technology shock inducing productivity growth transmits to developing regions vehicled via trade from developed USA. This spillover capture, aided by human capital based adoptive capability, better governance and institution, causes increase in income and welfare and subsequently, leads to decline in income inequality proxied by Gini coefficient. This accrual of benefits - contingent on constellation of absorptive capacity, education, socio-institutional features like governance, technological symmetry and social acceptance - could lead to sustained productivity growth and consequential relief of incidence of poverty in the long-run. The conjugate parameters, in post-simulation scenario following trade-mediated technology transfer, retards growth's inequality enhancing effect and thus, facilitates long-run inequality convergence between nations. Thus, the paper has policy insights for promoting better institutional framework, conducive social structure, adequate human capital formation, and technology policy in conjunction with trade policy so that long-run socio-economic growth and welfare is fostered.