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Halving Poverty in South Africa: Growth and Distributional Aspects
Tregenna, Fiona - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article specifies government.s stated target of halving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366414
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The colonial legacy: Income inequality in former British African colonies
Atkinson, A.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule. Just how uneq
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reform and Equitable Growth in Latin America
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Birdsall, Nancy; Naím, Moisés; … - Inter-American Development Bank
between these two objectives. This volume shows how reforms can address the urgent issue of inequality without undermining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772360
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Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century Title: Progreso, pobreza y exclusión: Una historia económica de América Latina en el siglo...
Thorp, Rosemary - Inter-American Development Bank
What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces that have shaped Latin America's development process.Abstract: Esta historia económica revisa las...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772479
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On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices
Subramanian, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854528
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Monetary inequality among households in Togo: An illustration based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient using the Shapley value approach
Noglo, Yawo Agbenyegan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165747
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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? The political economy challenge of Special Economic Zones
Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165766
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Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reform and Equitable Growth in Latin America
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Birdsall, Nancy; Naím, Moisés; … - Inter-American Development Bank
between these two objectives. This volume shows how reforms can address the urgent issue of inequality without undermining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943414
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Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century Title: Progreso, pobreza y exclusión: Una historia económica de América Latina en el siglo...
Thorp, Rosemary - Inter-American Development Bank
What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces that have shaped Latin America's development process.Abstract: Esta historia económica revisa las...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943557
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The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality
Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the …, inequality has increased less in this region than in developed countries and in Eastern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944090