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Inequality in a Lower Growth Latin America : LAC Semiannual Report, October 2014
Torre, Augusto de la; Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Beylis, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
‘Golden Decade’, in particular the decline in inequality, will hold in this less supportive environment, and discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168555
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Party age and party color : new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality
Keefer, Philip; Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094575
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Inequality stagnation in Latin America in the aftermath of the global financial crisis
Cord, Louise; Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar; Lucchetti, Leonardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
inequality, with the region's Gini coefficient falling from 55.6 to 51.8. Previous studies have warned about the sustainability … of such a decline, and this paper presents evidence of stagnation in the pace of reduction of income inequality in Latin … America since 2010. This phenomenon of stagnation is robust to different measures of inequality and is largely attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106304
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Can we rely on cash transfers to protect dietary diversity during food crises ? estimates from Indonesia
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Tiwari, Sailesh; Zaman, Hassan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
The 2008"food price crisis"and more recent spikes in food prices have led to a greater focus on policies and programs to cushion their impact on poverty and malnutrition. Estimating the income elasticity of micro-nutrients and assessing how they change during such crises is an important part of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800200
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History of events and life-satisfaction in transition countries
Dabalen, Andrew; Paul, Saumik - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011
Using Life in Transition Survey data for 27 transition countries, the findings of this paper suggest that higher life satisfaction is correlated with lesser experience of unpleasant events such as labor market shock or economic distress, mostly in the recent past. Social capital such as trust,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800605
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How reliable and consistent are subjective measures of welfare in Europe and Central Asia ? evidence from the second life in transition survey
Cojocaru, Alexandru; Diagne, Mame Fatou - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
This paper analyzes the reliability and consistency of subjective well-being measures. Using the Life in Transition Survey, which was administered in 34 countries of Europe and Central Asia in 2006 and 2010, the paper evaluates subjective well-being measures (satisfaction with life and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614888
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Fifteen years of inequality in Latin America : how have labor markets helped ?
Azevedo, Joao Pedro; Davalos, Maria Eugenia; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
Household income inequality has declined in Latin America in the past decades, contributing significantly to poverty … these inequality trends, few studies have analyzed more closely the labor market dynamics that have led to a decline in … total income inequality in some countries, but also to an increase in others. Using household survey data for a sample of 15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629101
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Finance, comparative advantage, and resource allocation
Jaud, Melise; Kukenova, Madina; Strieborny, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
The authors show that exported products exit the US market sooner if they violate the Heckscher-Ohlin notion of comparative advantage. Crucially, this pattern is stronger when exporting country has a well-developed banking system, measured by a high ratio of bank credit over the GDP. Banks thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555048
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The persistence of (subnational) fortune : geography, agglomeration, and institutions in the new world
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
Using subnational historical data, this paper establishes the within country persistence of economic activity in the New World over the last half millennium. The paper constructs a data set incorporating measures of pre-colonial population density, new measures of present regional per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569290
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Distortions to agriculture and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Bruckner, Markus - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575328