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We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …
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Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
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include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …
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The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and commodities across state borders. A new data set of district level income and socio-economic data is used to explore the...
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and population sub-groups. [Discussion Paper No. 2001/21].
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This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups – Scheduled Castes (SCs)...
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growth experience; (ii) rising inequality as a threat to growth, and (iii) the case for continued development assistance to …
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This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at …
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aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper …, along with other variables, to regional inequality. [Discussion Paper No. 2004/10] …
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