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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance … first- and second-order dominance in distribution of income and consumption. The results provide a detailed and up …-to-date picture of inequality and poverty by subgroup in South Korea which helps targeting particularly vulnerable groups. Overall …
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subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty … into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and residual components are described. In parametric approaches the dynamics … measures and expectations about their impacts on earnings inequality and poverty reductions. …
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poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … better formulate policies of fostering inclusive growth. Economic growth itself is an important source of welfare …
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This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze four waves of the China Health and Nutrition...
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Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
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the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …
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benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of … heterogeneity in the levels and development over time. The Kuznets hypothesis represents a global U-shape relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761854
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...
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Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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