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True world income distribution, 1988 and 1993: First calculation based on household surveys alo
milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The paper derives world income or expenditure distribution of individuals for two years 1988 and 1993. It is the first paper to calculate world distribution for individuals based entirely on household survey data from 91 countries, and adjusted for differences in purchasing power parity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134603
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The Ricardian Vice: Why Sala-i-Martin’s calculations of world income inequality are wrong
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The paper discusses recent world income inequality calculations by Sala- i-Martin. It shows that the two main problems with which the author had to grapple (too few data to derive countries’ income distributions, and sparseness of such data in time) are not solved in a satisfactory fashion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134630
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NATURAL RESOURCE ABUNDANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH REVISITED
Stijns, Jean-Philippe - EconWPA - 2001
Data on energy and mineral reserves suggest that natural resource abundance has not been a significant structural determinant of economic growth between 1970 and 1989. The story behind the effect of natural resources on economic growth is a complex one that typical growth regressions do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118731
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The median voter hypothesis, income inequality and income
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The median voter hypothesis has been central to an extensive literature on consequences of income distribution. For example, it has been proposed that greater inequality is associated with lower growth, because of the greater redistribution that is sought by the median voter when income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076939
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Policy Complementarities and the Washington Consensus
Aziz, Jahangir; Wescott, Robert - EconWPA - 1999
While economists continue to debate whether individual economic policies, such as those contained in Willliamsons (1993) Washington Consensus, can help to spur growth in developing countries, this paper demonstrates that it is groups of policies that are more critical for growth. Policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005550989
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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GLOBAL INCOME INEQUALITY: WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT MATTERS?
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005
inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134594
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
, globalization; general welfare, social security and public pensions, macroeconomics – Asia including Middle East; macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556011
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Skriptum: Europäisches und internationales Sozialrecht. Europäische und internationale Sozialpoltik
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
LISTE EINIGER WICHTIGER ABKÜRZUNGEN 4 ZUM GELEIT 6 EINFÜHRUNG UND PROBLEMAUFRISS - INTERNATIONALE SOZIALPOLITIK BEDEUTET FÖRDERUNG DER KONVERGENZ DER LEBENSBEDINGUNGEN 7 TEIL A: SOZIALRECHT UND SOZIALPOLITIK DER EU 14 1) ENTWICKLUNGSLINIEN UND GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER EUROPÄISCHEN SOZIALPOLITIK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556821
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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets … regime and went in for globalization in the early 1990’s. However, globalization of the Indian Economy has been defensive … in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119015