This paper examines a robust nonparametric methodology for decomposition of change in poverty into growth and … redistribution components. The decomposition is exact, symmetric and free of residual terms. It is equivalent to the Shapley value … decomposition in this two-component case. We avoid parametric assumptions about the underlying distributions and Lorenz functions …

telecommunications sector has played an important role in stimulating economic growth in the country during the last few years, with an … annual growth rate higher than that of other sectors. This contribution is supported to a great extent by the rapid diffusion … the impact of the sectors on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) without further scrutiny of what sources of growth …

, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale effects are dominated by technique effects working towards a …

growth on poverty is estimated to have been greater if inequality remained constant. It is also noted that the impacts of … economic growth on poverty vary across different ethnic groups. Finally, regression decompositions of within inequality have …