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Income Distributions, Inequality, and Poverty in Asia, 1992–2010
Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Griffiths, William E.; Rao, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to calculate measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278239
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Understanding the Pattern of Growth and Equity in the People’s Republic of China
Liu, Minquan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
There are likely to be many factors which have together shaped the current pattern of growth and equity in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Among them are the foundations laid in the pre-1978 era, especially in respect of land-related institutional reforms and social sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651634
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Understanding the Pattern of Growth and Equity in the People’s Republic of China
Liu, Minquan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
There are likely to be many factors which have together shaped the current pattern of growth and equity in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Among them are the foundations laid in the pre-1978 era, especially in respect of land-related institutional reforms and social sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651659
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Grassroots Democracy and Income Distribution : Evidence from Village Elections in China
Shen, Yan; Yao, Yang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363305
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Competitiveness, Income Distribution, and Growth in Thailand : What Does the Long-run Evidence Show?
Pholphirul, Piriya - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The paper addresses three fundamental issues under a long-run perspective : (1) growth and productivity, (2) competitiveness, and (3) income distribution. Unit labor costs (ulcs) and unit capital cost (ukcs) are calculated as the indicators of competitiveness in Thailand. Both series explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363848
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Development Strategies and Regional Income Disparities in China
Lin, Justin Yifu; Liu, Peilin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
time with a population of more than one billion truly is a miracle in world economy history (Lin et. al. 1994 and 1999). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365269
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Trends in Inequality, Welfare, and Growth in Pakistan, 1963-64 to 2004-05
Zakir, Nadia; Idrees, Muhammad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The present study investigates the trends in inequality, welfare, and growth based on per capita household income/consumption in Pakistan, both its rural and urban areas, from 1963-64 to 2004-05. It employs Gini coefficient to measure inequalities and the Sen welfare index to estimate welfare....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365371
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Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Employment and Labour Market of Bangladesh A Preliminary Assessment
Rahman, Mustafizur; Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; Hossain, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
and develop alternative policy responses to mitigate the adverse social effects of the crisis on the world of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363334
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Policy Dilemmas in India - The Impact of Changes in Agricultural Prices on Rural and Urban Poverty
Polaski, Sandra; Panda, Manoj; Ganesh-Kumar, A.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or domestic policies aimed at … to use import protection and/or price support policies to protect themselves against volatility in world agricultural …, region, and urban/rural). The CGE model based on this SAM can be used to explore the linkages between changes in world prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363420
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The Harris-Todaro Hypothesis
Khan, M. Ali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of expected wages as the basic equilibrium condition in a segmented but homogeneous labour market, and in so doing it generates an equilibrium level of urban unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban...
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