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  "title": "Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal",
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  "summary": "The paper examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducing and distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive.",
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      "content": "- Examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its poverty-reducing and distributional characteristics.\n- Discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive.\n- Author: Alexei P Kireyev\n- Date: October 23, 2013\n- Format: IMF Working Paper"
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      "content": "- Poverty has fallen in the last two decades, but poverty reduction has slowed in recent years.\n- Available indicators sometimes give conflicting signals on distributional shifts.\n- People in the middle of the income distribution have received the most benefit, mainly in urban areas."
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      "content": "- Further progress in poverty reduction and inclusiveness would require sustained high growth.\n- Exploration of growth opportunities in sectors with high earning potential for the poor is needed.\n- Better-targeted social policies would help reduce poverty and improve inclusiveness.\n- More attention to the regional distribution of spending would also help reduce poverty and improve inclusiveness."
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      "content": "- Subject: Consumption, Income, Income inequality, National accounts, Population and demographics, Poverty, Poverty reduction\n- Keywords: bottom decile, decile, decile ratio, growth, growth incidence curve, household survey, inclusiveness, Income, Income inequality, low-income countries, poverty incidence, poverty line, poverty reduction, Senegal, Senegal's poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Annex I. Assessing Inclusiveness of Growth: Some Theoretical Considerations\n  - Annex I. Assessing Inclusiveness of Growth: Some Theoretical Considerations (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Annex I. Assessing Inclusiveness of Growth: Some Theoretical Considerations (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/inclusive-growth-and-inequality-in-senegal-41006"
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    "Discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive.",
    "Author: Alexei P Kireyev",
    "Date: October 23, 2013",
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    "Available indicators sometimes give conflicting signals on distributional shifts.",
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    "Further progress in poverty reduction and inclusiveness would require sustained high growth.",
    "Exploration of growth opportunities in sectors with high earning potential for the poor is needed.",
    "Better-targeted social policies would help reduce poverty and improve inclusiveness.",
    "More attention to the regional distribution of spending would also help reduce poverty and improve inclusiveness.",
    "Subject: Consumption, Income, Income inequality, National accounts, Population and demographics, Poverty, Poverty reduction",
    "Keywords: bottom decile, decile, decile ratio, growth, growth incidence curve, household survey, inclusiveness, Income, Income inequality, low-income countries, poverty incidence, poverty line, poverty reduction, Senegal, Senegal's poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP",
    "**Annex I. Assessing Inclusiveness of Growth: Some Theoretical Considerations**"
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