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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …
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Reducing Poverty in Chile: Cash Transfers and Better Jobs
Brandt, Nicola - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax … relates to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of Chile (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/chile).<P>Réduire la pauvreté au Chili grâce aux …
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … of other social benefits. A set of new indicators of nationwide inequality, based on household survey data, suggests that … overall inequality has ceased to increase in recent years, and may even have inched down. Alternative measures of income …
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … of other social benefits. A set of new indicators of nationwide inequality, based on household survey data, suggests that … overall inequality has ceased to increase in recent years, and may even have inched down. Alternative measures of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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Poverty and Inequality in the Years of Globalisation
Milone, Luciano Marcello; Pizzuti, Felice Roberto - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2004) 2
policies, but at the same time poverty and inequality have remained high or have increased. Prospects are not encouraging for …
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Reducing poverty in Chile : cash transfers and better jobs
Brandt, Nicola - 2012
Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax … relates to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of Chile (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/chile). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690155
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Bringing all Chileans on board
Olaberría, Eduardo - 2016
rates. However, the economy is now slowing at a time when inequality remains very high, making future social progress …. First, it argues that Chile needs to increase income redistribution through its tax and transfer system towards levels … should be less disparate, as they explain around 70% of income inequality. This should be done by updating labour legislation …
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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth
Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011), pp. 1-57
approach to inequality measurement when defining pro-poor growth. With a relative approach to pro-poor growth it is assumed … that inequality does not to vary when all incomes are multiplied by a constant whereas, with an absolute approach to pro …-poor growth, inequality is supposed not to vary when an equal sum is added to all incomes. The empirical illustration covers the …
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How Good is a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test
DEMOMBYNES, Gabriel; ELBERS, Chris; LANJOUW, Jean O.; … - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 116 (2008) 4, pp. 465-493
produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set …
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