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This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness.inequality relationship in Latin America … years 1980-2010. This 30-year database allows observing clearly that the increases in inequality throughout the 1980s and … this regard is that greater trade openness is associated with contemporaneous increases in inequality in the region. The …
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This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage …
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …
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household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
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This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...
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This report looks at how the economic crisis has unfolded in Canada and what will be the impacts on economic wellbeing. The shortfall is estimated to be approximately $12,000 ($2007) per capita. In other words, given no economic crisis, GDP per capita in Canada would have likely been $1,736...
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds that the IEWB advanced at a 1.20 per cent average...
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Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should dispropo
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, but the reductions were not nearly as large as the increase in wealth inequality. The unemployment rate is down to a …
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