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On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices

Subramanian, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …

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Halving Poverty in South Africa: Growth and Distributional Aspects

Tregenna, Fiona - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article specifies government.s stated target of halving...

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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

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Inequality and Welfare Evaluation of Heterogeneous Income Distributions

Shorrocks, Anthony - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income …. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained using … constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and inequality …

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Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesising Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis

Shorrocks, Anthony; Wan, Guanghua - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …

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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings

Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenstrom, Daniel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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The colonial legacy: Income inequality in former British African colonies

Atkinson, A.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule. Just how uneq

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Monetary inequality among households in Togo: An illustration based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient using the Shapley value approach

Noglo, Yawo Agbenyegan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among …

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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? The political economy challenge of Special Economic Zones

Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special

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Flat Tax Reforms in the US: A Boon for the Income Poor

Díaz-Giménez, Javier; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this article we quantify the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of two revenue neutral flat-tax reforms using a model economy that replicates the U.S. distributions of earnings, income and wealth in very much detail. We find that the less progressive reform brings about a 2.4%...

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