Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries

More than 1 billion people around the globe still live on less than U.S. $1 a day as measured in purchasing power parity in 2001. Over the past 20 years, rapid economic growth in East Asia has reduced the total number of poor people from 800 million in 1981 to 270 million in 2001. In South Asia, dur...

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Main Author: Fan, Shenggen
Format: Libro
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2008
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158427

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