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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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Inequality and human development : the role of different parts of the income distribution
Castells-Quintana, David; Gradín, Carlos; Royuela, Vicente - 2022
several country-specific characteristics, including the quality of institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380766
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Wealth inequality and economic growth : evidence from the world inequality database
Steenbrink, Rachel; Skali, Ahmed - 2024
Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this relationship has rarely been studied empirically, with a few exceptions covering a very restricted country sample or short timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553772
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Inequality in pre-industrial urban Bohemia : the city of Budweis
Kolář, Daniel - 2021
Motivated by the lack of previous research on historical inequality in Central Europe, this paper constructs wealth inequality statistics for a larger town in South Bohemia, Budweis. The data sources are rare detailed local tax censuses from 1416 and 1523 and a national tax register from 1654 as...
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Inequality and economic development : an overview
Galor, Oded - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897570
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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of Piketty. Abandoning the former's view that inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408850
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The nature of conflict
Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015
contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309623
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Wealth concentration over the path of development : Sweden, 1873 - 2005
Roine, Jesper (contributor);  … - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evi-dence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003572001
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Income share of the top 10 %, the middle 50 % and the bottom 40 % in Latin America : 1920-2011
Astorga, Pablo - 2023
This paper analyses, for the first time, comparable income shares of the top 10%, the middle 50% and the bottom 40% of the labour force in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (LA6) from 1920 to 2011 using a new dataset. The main findings are: i) over the whole period the LA6...
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