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-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the most important factors explaining income inequality are location …This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …
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outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased … increase spending on health, education, and social safetynets; labor market reforms to boost the labor share of total income …
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dynamic measure permits us to focus on inequality as well as distinguish between countries where per capita income growth was … and income distribution outcomes, using data over three decades. Country distributions are calibrated by combining PPP GDP … per capita and income distribution from survey data. We apply the microeconomic concept of a social mobility function at …
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Tomé and Príncipe. A comparison of the results of the 2000 and 2010 poverty profile, based on the average income method …
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challenge the belief that income inequality has a negative effect on growth and confirm the validity of the Kuznets curve …This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth …, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …
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. Its results suggest that financial deepening could narrow income inequality and reduce poverty, and that stronger property …
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This paper examines Congo’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP). Congo’s I-PRSP explains the features and causes of poverty in Congo. It provides a short- and medium-term vision of development as well as a strategic orientation for a return to sustainable and equitable growth....
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of a 14 percentage point decline owing to the growth factor and a 5 percentage point increase owing to the income …
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How does fiscal policy fare in improving the underlying income distribution in Central America? We integrate the data … revenues and devoting the proceeds to social spending would unambiguously improve the income of the poorest households. …
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This progress report on Senegal’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) highlights that tax collection has been found to be effective as it attained the level foreseen in the high case scenario despite less favorable mobilization of PRSP resources than expected. More public investment...
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