Introduction and key messages

verfasst von

Stephan Klasen, Hermann Waibel

Abstract

In many ways, the last ten years have been rather good for developing countries. Average income growth rates have been quite high - in fact, substantially higher than in industrialized countries - and absolute income poverty has come down substantially (Chen and Ravallion, 2010). While much of this success in reducing poverty is related to particularly high growth rates in some populous Asian economies (including China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam), substantial rates of per capita growth and associated poverty reduction has been experienced in the majority of countries from all regions. Even in Sub-Saharan Africa, growth has been higher than in rich countries, and poverty rates have started to come down, albeit only slowly and from a very high level (Bourguignon et al., 2008).

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Entwicklungs- und Agrarökonomik

Externe Organisation(en)

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Typ

Beitrag in Buch/Sammelwerk

Seiten

1-14

Anzahl der Seiten

14

Publikationsdatum

01.01.2016

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ökonometrie und Finanzen (insg.), Allgemeine Unternehmensführung und Buchhaltung, Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 1 – Keine Armut

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306622_1 (Zugang: Geschlossen)