Paraguay’s poverty reduction shows what happens when governments focus not just on growth, but on productivity and jobs. In the last 20 years, poverty has plummeted from over 50% to 16%. The World Bank says the decisive factor is how the gains from growth has been distributed: labour income has been the main driver of poverty reduction as employment has shifted towards more stable, better- paid work. https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/voices/growth-jobs-and-poverty-reduction-lessons-from-paraguay
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