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The principal contribution of this article is that it provides evidence of recent trends of inequality in Guyana, but … the article goes beyond this and describes the evolution of inequality since 1974 to 2013. This is done within a Kaleckian … framework to derive profit and wage rates, since recent Gini coefficients data are absent. The evidence implies that inequality …
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income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
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, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
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The paper looks at poverty and inequality across areas in Malawi. The focus is on both monetary (consumption) and non … in the three dimensions regardless of poverty line chosen. Stochastic inequality dominance tests find that the north and … south dominate the centre in health inequality, and there is no dominance between the north and south. With respect to …
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, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use …
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This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …
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This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
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Transportation & storage. Similar to rentier capitalism and financialization, the growth of DInRT economies is part of a … serivicizaton process that result in economic fragility and increasing inequality. Therefore, further classification of countries … into FIRE and DInRT economies are needed to ascertain the quality and inclusive nature of growth in the poor and developing …
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