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Blog Entries by Otaviano Canuto from 11/2012

Revolutionary Services

| Posted 11.07.2012 | World
Read More: Services, Competitiveness, Trade, Exports, Jobs, Globalization, Poverty Reduction, Technology, Economic Growth, Productivity, World News

If services are getting bigger as a share of GDPs and jobs, productivity increases in the former are fundamental for income growth and development.

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It's Jobs, Stupid!

| Posted 11.14.2012 | World
Read More: Poverty, Nepal, Ghana, Jobs, Colombia, Bangladesh, Income, Paraguay, Labor, Education, Investment, Demography, Honduras, Moldova, Productivity, Global Poverty Rates, Poverty Rates, Global Poverty, World News

The World Bank has been tracking the world progress against poverty since the late '80s, but the release of 2008 data was the first time in which all regions of the developing world showed a decline in the number of people living below poverty lines!

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The East Asian Miracle 2.0

| Posted 11.26.2012 | World
Read More: Labor, Middle Income Trap, Income Ladder, International Development, Middle-Income Growth Traps, Income Growth, World News

. In a recent Economic Premise - "Avoiding Middle-Income Growth Traps" - Pierre-Richard Agénor, Michael Jelenic and I suggest that the region can now provide a new round of lessons.

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