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John Cockburn, Yazid Dissou, Jean-Yves Duclos and Luca Tiberti
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Jean-Yves Duclos: Université Laval

A chapter in Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia, 2013, pp 1-4 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in the relationship between economic development and poverty. An important reason for this has been the establishment of the Millennium Development Goals, which have set poverty reduction as a fundamental objective of development. The main factor explaining the salience of poverty reduction as a development goal is, in part, ethical. It is indeed widely considered ethically unacceptable that a large part of the world population still does not have the resources to achieve a basic level of living standards in an otherwise increasingly affluent world.

Keywords: Poverty Reduction; Computable General Equilibrium; Infrastructure Investment; Computable General Equilibrium Model; Distributive Impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03137-8_1

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