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represent the driving force underlying the increasing trend in regional income inequality in rural China. Policy implications … article. Pitfalls in measuring income inequality in rural China are discussed …
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Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria overtime. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
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Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
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This study offers empirical evidence on the rural-urban gap in the context of growing inequality in Asia. First, China … contributors. Overall, China's income inequality is characterized by rural-urban disparity, but the inequality within rural and … rural-urban gap. Third, the rural-urban human resources gap in terms of educational attainment has increased in both China …
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The principal results of the statistical and econometrical studying of dynamics and factors of income inequality across the regions of The Russian Federation (RF) during 1995 - 2007 years have been presented at the paper. The objects of investigation have been the 79 subjects of RF. They have...
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This paper considers a partitioned population and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which measure the within and the between groups inequality. Differently from the most widespread inequality measure decompositions, having a between component that compares the means...
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The socioeconomic impact of spatial concentration has been receiving an increasing attention during the last two decades. Consequently, the necessity of effective measures of this phenomenon has increased too. This paper considers a population partitioned by subgroups and develops a...
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