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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Jenkins, Stephen P.; VanKerm, Philippe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain how it was possible both for 'the poor' to have fared...

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Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Reassessment of the Paradox

Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues misleading and led to the so-called 'Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox', i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty...

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Subsidies, Knapsack Auctions and Dantzig's Greedy Heuristic

Ensthaler, Ludwig; Giebe, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

performance of our mechanism. Finally, we discuss how the mechanism can be applied to award R&D subsidies. …

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National Climate Change Policy: Are the New German Energy Policy Initiatives in Conflict with WTO Law?

Dröge, Susanne; Trabold, Harald; Biermann, Frank; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

tools currently applied (standards, taxes and subsidies) and those under consideration (labels, green certificates and …

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How to Turn an Industry Green: Taxes versus Subsidies

Dröge, Susanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

Environmental policies frequently target the ratio of dirty to green output within the same industry. To achieve such targets the green sector may be subsidised or the dirty sector be taxed. This paper shows that in a monopolistic competition setting the two policy instruments have different...

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Cost Efficiency and Subsidization in German Local Public Bus Transit

Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence … impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost inefficiency of local public bus companies in Germany, where a complex …. Subsidies directly enter the inefficiency function as a heteroscedastic variable. We find a positive effect of subsidies on the …

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