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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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Germany's water supply industry is characterized by a multitude of utilities and widely diverging prices, possibly resulting from structural differences beyond the control of firms' management, but also from inefficiencies. In this article we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier...
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Efforts undertaken by France to restructure the allocation of governmental competencies increased the importance of subnational governments by transferring additional tasks. This paper analyzes the efficiency of public spending on an intermediate government level for a sample of 96 départements...
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This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at …
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This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are benefiting from economic development. Using regression analysis, five factors were examined: (1) location of the household, (2) access to infrastructure, (3) changes in rice...
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to achieve the MDG targets for maternal and child health. This study shows inequality in maternal and child health …
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reducing poverty and perhaps inequality, as well as better fertility management--particularly among the poor--aimed at the …
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inequality measures. In this paper, we show the salient features of the country`s poverty situation in a hope to contribute to …
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This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about …
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