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The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequality

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2002

We use aggregate GDP data and within-country income shares for the period 1970-1998 to assign a level of income to each person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We compute world poverty rates by integrating the density...

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The Growth of Nations Revisited : Global Environmental Accounting from 1998 to 2018

Mohan, Aniruddh - 2020

A persistent issue in environmental economics is whether growth is sustainable. Pollution is a key driver of sustainability, which we define as an economy exhibiting falling pollution damages at its balanced growth path. We deduct air pollution and carbon dioxide damages from the national...

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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts

Deaton, Angus - 2008

PPP-based national accounts have become an important part of the database for macroeconomists, development economists, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world...

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Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers : Introducing Age into National Accounts

Mason, Andrew - 2006

In all societies intergenerational transfers are large and have an important influence on inequality and growth. The development of each generation of youth depends on the resources that it receives from productive members of society for health, education, and sustenance. The well-being of the...

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What is Productivity : Capacity or Welfare Management?

Hulten, Charles R. - 1992

A number of recent papers have examined the role of environmental variables in accounting for economic growth, and have concluded that net measures of national product are superior to gross measures in portraying the outcome of the growth process. This paper argues that the two measures are not...

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Business Cycles and Growth : Some Reflections and Measures

Zarnowitz, Victor - 1981

Is the long-term trend of the economy -- growth -- substantially influenced by the short-term movements -- business cycles -- and, if so, how? Are business cycles subject to major secular changes? Are these fluctuations the natural way growth takes in private enterprise economies or are they...

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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics

Chen, Xi - 2010

One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...

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Understanding Creativity

Galenson, David W. - 2010

measurement of an artist's creativity over the course of the life cycle: this not only establishes when the artist made his …

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2009

growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an … indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurement error in national income accounts. For countries with good national income … official data. Lights data also allow for measurement of income growth in sub- and supranational regions. As an application, we …

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New Age Thinking : Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Goverment Policies and GDP

Shoven, John B. - 2007

. In a separate application of age measurement, I examine the consequences of stabilizing labor force participation by age …

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