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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996
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Converging to Convergence
Kremer, Michael; Willis, Jack; You, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, including AK models, poverty trap models, and the concept of convergence conditional on determinants of steady-state income. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696393
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Supplemental Social Insurance and the Health of the Poor
Taubman, Paul J. - 1983
In 1974 the federal government instituted Supplemental Social Insurance(SSI). The eligible group was the elderly on welfare and disabled individuals.The program distributed extra income and made people eligible for Medicaid in all states except Arizona which did not have Medicaid. We used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478041
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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009
, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463862
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464963
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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007
modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465250
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Globalization and Poverty
Harrison, Ann - 2006
This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466318
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My Policies or Yours : Does OECD Support for Agriculture Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?
McMillan, Margaret - 2005
countries on poverty and average incomes in poor countries. We find no support in the cross-country analysis for the claim that … OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467395
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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467709
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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries
Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004
We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468100