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This paper explores the relationships between openness, poverty and inequality in Africa. The analysis begins with a … guided African policymaking over the last three decades is the lens through which poverty and inequality are further examined …
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This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity—aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory—to social welfare measurement. We suggest a … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …
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of poverty has broadened, with increasing attention to issues of vulnerability, inequality and human rights. Second, the …
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Rapid growth and structural change have reduced poverty in East Asian economies. Income inequality has been low in …, Malaysia and Indonesia, poverty has declined, while income inequality trends have varied, rising most clearly in Thailand. With … increased inequality despite considerable poverty reduction. Hence, the common claim of egalitarian growth in East Asia may have …
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unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
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The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … inequality. We also examine the effect of the length of electoral periods on redistribution and welfare for different groups and …
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This paper deals with the causes and consequences of inequality and poverty in the countries east of the new frontiers …
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Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … rents-induced inequality. …
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inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …, inequality and growth bear a non-linear relationship: for low values of inequality, economic growth rate is an inverted U …
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Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on survey data that needs not assume that voters are guided by pecuniary motives alone. We find that most democracies implement the median voter’s preferred amount of...
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