Industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction?

Robots and industRialization in developing countRies

Industrialization has historically been synonymous with development, while deindustrialization is a well-established trend in mature developed economies as they move towards services-based economies. Yet recent trends show that many developing countries – especially in Africa and Latin America – have witnessed their shares of manufacturing employment and output shrinking long before they have a...

Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

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Growth , Inequality , and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries : Recent Global

No institution of affiliation is responsible for the views expressed herein. Abstract The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early-mid-1990s when growth in these countries as a group has been relatively strong, surpassing ...

Prospects for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

T he effects of the crises of 1997–99, from East Asia to Russia and Brazil, persist in many aspects. In most developing countries growth remains weak and well below precrisis trends. Social dislocations are severe, and have increased not only in Asia but also in other affected countries. Progress in poverty reduction has stalled in the developing world at the end of the 1990s, and the number of...

Agriculture -Related Science and Technology Priorities for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries to 2020