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Ecuador : Poverty Assessment

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-25T15:42:46Z
dc.date.available2013-07-25T15:42:46Z
dc.date.issued2004-04
dc.description.abstractEcuador'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.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/4261530/ecuador-poverty-assessment
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/14593
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/14593
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectCAPITA GROWTH
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectFINANCIAL SUPPORT
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subjectHUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectLABOR MARKETS
dc.subjectLABOR PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectLAND TRANSACTIONS
dc.subjectLIVING CONDITIONS
dc.subjectMEDIA
dc.subjectPOVERTY ASSESSMENT
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectTERMS OF TRADE
dc.subjectUNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectURBAN POVERTY
dc.subjectWAGES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectFINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT
dc.subjectDOLLARIZATION
dc.subjectEXCHANGE RATE POLICY
dc.subjectINVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT CREATION
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
dc.subjectINCOME GENERATION CAPACITY
dc.subjectINCOME GROWTH
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC POLICY
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectMICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROGRAMS
dc.subjectMONETARY CONDITIONS
dc.subjectMONETARY EXPANSION
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION ECONOMICS
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION BEHAVIORS
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION PATTERNS
dc.titleEcuador : Poverty Assessmenten
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-07T09:22:01.768568Z
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Poverty Assessment
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/4261530/ecuador-poverty-assessment
okr.globalpracticeMacroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.guid530831468769906375
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000160016_20040615095708
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum4261530
okr.identifier.report27061
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/06/15/000160016_20040615095708/Rendered/PDF/270610EC.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryEcuador
okr.sectorPublic Administration, Law, and Justice :: General public administration sector
okr.topicHealth Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Conditions and Volatility
okr.topicEnvironmental Economics and Policies
okr.topicHealth Economics and Finance
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.unitPoverty Sector (LCSPP)
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