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Inequality in education: Evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011

2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

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The medium- and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire: A dynamic microsimulation study

Grimm, Michael - 2004

direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational choices …

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Uruguay's income inequality and political regimes during 1981 - 2010

Amarante, Verónica; Colafranceschi, Marco; Vigorito, Andrea - 2011

-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … reduction in labour income inequality and the introduction of noncontributory public transfers schemes. …

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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Changes in inequality within countries after 1990

Gradín, Carlos - 2020

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying …

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Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study

Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Osei, … - 2023

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare distribution that enable a better understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these...

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Natural disasters and economic inequality: Insights from wildfires across the globe

Paudel, Jayash - 2023

Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across …, implying that natural disasters may serve as a means of creative destruction. This effect is prominent among uppermiddle-income …

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Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth

Negre, Mario - 2010

to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is …

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Inequality, income and poverty: Comparative global evidence

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2010

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanatory …

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Indicators of inequality and poverty

Subramanian, S. - 2004

income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz … section advances the rationale for a more comprehensive assessment of human wellbeing than is afforded by the income …

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