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expropriation. In a dynamic setting, market payoffs may induce sufficient inequality in next period's endowments for markets to …
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processes are, per se, sufficient for poverty reduction and inequality abatement. Abundant work has analyzed the link between … tariff reduction, poverty levels and inequality in both developed and developing countries. Gains from trade are generally … trade, poverty and inequality by analyzing the impact of trade liberalization through two main transmission channels: prices …
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In this paper we analyze if an 'urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history of industrialized nations during the 19th century. We analyze the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 19 Sub-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult...
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income or salaries. This paper aims to investigate the evolution of expenditure inequality in Cameroon over the 1984 …-1996 period, with the help of Lorenz Curves, the Gini coefficient, and two entropy measures of inequality. Total expenditure … inequality is decomposed into the within-groups and between-groups components using Theils decomposition techniques and household …
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This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …
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While the econometric literature on the impact of immigration on labour markets is well developed, there is a striking gap in the migration literature concerning the impact of emigration on sending countries. This paper attempts to narrow that gap by investigating whether the large and intense...
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This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distinction with the … existing literature lies in the nature of inequality under consideration. We investigate how land inequality across landlords … intensity is non-monotonic in land inequality. In particular, the most severe conflicts occur for intermediate land inequality …
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for women and men). We obtained no significant inequality effects after national trade reforms. We analyze the impact on … poverty and inequality of a 10% increase the broiler world price. In general terms, we find an increase in poverty of two … points and no effect on income inequality. …
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I discuss how poverty decomposition methods relate to integral approximation, which ultimately is the foundation of every decomposition of the temporal change of a quantity into key drivers. This offers a common framework for the different decomposition methods used in the literature, clarifies...
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This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...
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