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-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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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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Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should dispropo
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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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This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth...
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This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the …-reported health status increases with per capita income, but at a decreasing rate. Controlling for per capita income, we find an …
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This study examines the role of women's intra-household status relative to men in children's food security in Pakistan … women's intra-household status and children's food security. …
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