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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...
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This paper estimates the relationship between initial village inequality and subsequent household income growth for a … for an array of household and village characteristics, the paper finds that households located in higher inequality … villages experienced significantly lower income growth through the 1990s. However, local inequality’s predictive power and …
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channel linking current poverty to subsequent growth and poverty reduction. However, high current inequality is only a …
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Development aid and policy discussions often assume that poorer countries have less internal capacity for redistribution in favor of their poorest citizens. The assumption is tested using data for 90 developing countries. The capacity for redistribution is measured by the marginal tax rate on...
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income inequality is greater. …
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exclusion. This may then lead to a feedback mechanism whereby inequality in the incidence of public spending on education breeds … higher income inequality, thus generating multiple equilibria: with social exclusion and high inequality; and with social … inclusion and relatively low inequality. The author also shows that the latter equilibrium leads to higher long-run growth than …
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