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measured by increased in real consumption expenditures. Inequality during 1993-99 improved slightly, but it has remained fairly … stable from the 1950s to the 1990s. There is little or not correlation between growth and inequality, and no strong … correlation between inequality and poverty, and no significant correlation between poverty and race. …
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Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. Reducing income inequality is a key government objective and this requires improving the performance of the labour market …
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years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example … transform into rising income inequality, the ability of governments to cushion this impact may be limited, as rising trade …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty -- Chapter 6 Types of Economic Activities and Rural Residents’ Poverty …This book aims to empirically and theoretically study how the economic growth and inequality affected China’s rural … inequality usually links with unfairly shared of the economic growth, which is not good for the poor, and this book particularly …
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Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution. Technological change and international trade have contributed to this success, but have also brought structural change. Some industries have declined, while others flourished....
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We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural sectors and measure the portion of China's recent growth attributable to this channel. Using detailed micro-level data and an empirical model that allows for the endogenous selection...
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To achieve the United Nations MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) in less developed Asian countries it is required to increase international cooperation to reach higher educational level of population and investment per head. In this article we analyze the evolution of economic development and...
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