Ecuador : Poverty Assessment
Ecuador's poor economic performance is not solely nor mainly the result of high volatility, but rather the result of poor economic management and, especially, weak productivity growth. This connection between productivity and economic growth h...
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okr-10986-145932021-04-23T14:03:17Z Ecuador : Poverty Assessment World Bank CAPITA GROWTH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT EMPLOYMENT FINANCIAL SUPPORT HOUSEHOLD INCOME HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME LABOR MARKETS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LAND TRANSACTIONS LIVING CONDITIONS MEDIA POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY REDUCTION TERMS OF TRADE UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN POVERTY WAGES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT DOLLARIZATION EXCHANGE RATE POLICY INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT EMPLOYMENT CREATION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES INCOME GENERATION CAPACITY INCOME GROWTH MACROECONOMIC POLICY MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS SOCIAL PROGRAMS MONETARY CONDITIONS MONETARY EXPANSION CONSUMPTION ECONOMICS CONSUMPTION BEHAVIORS CONSUMPTION PATTERNS Ecuador's poor economic performance is not solely nor mainly the result of high volatility, but rather the result of poor economic management and, especially, weak productivity growth. This connection between productivity and economic growth has become even more relevant in recent years, after Ecuador decided to adopt the US dollar as the national currency in 2000, hence forgoing the option of using exchange rate policy to generate temporary increases in competitiveness and growth. Although the decision to dollarize undoubtedly improved the investment climate, reassured potential investors and hence, potentially increased the capacity of the economy to create employment and reduce poverty, sustained increases in productivity will be required to maintain positive growth rates and declining poverty rates in the future. As a consequence, the focus of this report is on productivity growth and its effect on employment, income and, most importantly, poverty. The report pays special attention to the relationship between poverty and the productive sectors, both from a macroeconomic and a microeconomic point of view, and both in urban and rural areas. In following this approach, it not only complements the previous Ecuador Poverty Assessment (World Bank, 2000c), which focused mainly on poverty and social services, but also provides important insights regarding the relationship between economic growth, productivity and employment generation on the one hand, and poverty reduction on the other. Moreover, in thinking about poverty, the report concentrates on monetary, rather than on non- monetary aspects of well-being, since it is the former that appears to be more intimately linked to the evolution of GDP and productivity growth and, hence, has exhibited little improvement over the past years - namely, while social outcomes and access to basic services in Ecuador have improved slowly but continuously since 1980, the national consumption-based poverty rate increased from 40 to 45 percent between 1990 and 2001, as discussed below, with much larger increases in urban areas. . Finally, the report makes use of a variety of sources, both quantitative and qualitative, as well as of existing work in order to provide policy recommendations that will help Ecuador and its government design an effective poverty reduction strategy based on economic and productivity growth. 2013-07-25T15:42:46Z 2013-07-25T15:42:46Z 2004-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/4261530/ecuador-poverty-assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14593 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment Economic & Sector Work Latin America & Caribbean Ecuador |
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CAPITA GROWTH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT EMPLOYMENT FINANCIAL SUPPORT HOUSEHOLD INCOME HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME LABOR MARKETS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LAND TRANSACTIONS LIVING CONDITIONS MEDIA POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY REDUCTION TERMS OF TRADE UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN POVERTY WAGES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT DOLLARIZATION EXCHANGE RATE POLICY INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT EMPLOYMENT CREATION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES INCOME GENERATION CAPACITY INCOME GROWTH MACROECONOMIC POLICY MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS SOCIAL PROGRAMS MONETARY CONDITIONS MONETARY EXPANSION CONSUMPTION ECONOMICS CONSUMPTION BEHAVIORS CONSUMPTION PATTERNS World Bank Ecuador : Poverty Assessment |
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Ecuador's poor economic performance
is not solely nor mainly the result of high volatility, but
rather the result of poor economic management and,
especially, weak productivity growth. This connection
between productivity and economic growth has become even
more relevant in recent years, after Ecuador decided to
adopt the US dollar as the national currency in 2000, hence
forgoing the option of using exchange rate policy to
generate temporary increases in competitiveness and growth.
Although the decision to dollarize undoubtedly improved the
investment climate, reassured potential investors and hence,
potentially increased the capacity of the economy to create
employment and reduce poverty, sustained increases in
productivity will be required to maintain positive growth
rates and declining poverty rates in the future. As a
consequence, the focus of this report is on productivity
growth and its effect on employment, income and, most
importantly, poverty. The report pays special attention to
the relationship between poverty and the productive sectors,
both from a macroeconomic and a microeconomic point of view,
and both in urban and rural areas. In following this
approach, it not only complements the previous Ecuador
Poverty Assessment (World Bank, 2000c), which focused mainly
on poverty and social services, but also provides important
insights regarding the relationship between economic growth,
productivity and employment generation on the one hand, and
poverty reduction on the other. Moreover, in thinking about
poverty, the report concentrates on monetary, rather than on
non- monetary aspects of well-being, since it is the former
that appears to be more intimately linked to the evolution
of GDP and productivity growth and, hence, has exhibited
little improvement over the past years - namely, while
social outcomes and access to basic services in Ecuador have
improved slowly but continuously since 1980, the national
consumption-based poverty rate increased from 40 to 45
percent between 1990 and 2001, as discussed below, with much
larger increases in urban areas. . Finally, the report makes
use of a variety of sources, both quantitative and
qualitative, as well as of existing work in order to provide
policy recommendations that will help Ecuador and its
government design an effective poverty reduction strategy
based on economic and productivity growth. |
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Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment |
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Ecuador : Poverty Assessment |
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Ecuador : Poverty Assessment |
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Ecuador : Poverty Assessment |
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Ecuador : Poverty Assessment |
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Ecuador : Poverty Assessment |
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ecuador : poverty assessment |
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Washington, DC |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/4261530/ecuador-poverty-assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14593 |
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