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value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …
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In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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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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authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the …
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increasing income inequality, mostly between rural and urban areas but also within both rural and urban areas and across regions … results do not show that trends in inequality have a significant effect on poverty. However, the process of economic growth …, besides bringing the benefits of productivity increases, also brings structural adjustments that exacerbate income inequality …
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also found that the higher is income inequality within a country the more limited is the impact of growth on reducing … relationships between productivity growth, poverty and inequality. The present study uses several sources of international data on … labour productivity, poverty and income inequality, and finds that across the developing countries for which data are …
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In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could...
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issues of social inequality and poverty. He argues that there has been no flagging in redistributive effort in Canada and he …
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income inequality mediates the relationship between productivity growth and poverty reduction. The greater the level of … inequality and any increase in inequality, the less an increase in productivity and income will reduce poverty. …
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new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …
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