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"Political economy explanations for fiscal profligacy are dominated by models of bargaining among organized interest groups over group-specific targeted benefits financed by generalized taxation. These models predict that governments consisting of a coalition of political parties spend more than...
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This note presents practical guidance on how to implement a framework for managing fiscal commitments from Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). It draws on specific regional operational experience and on World Bank Institute (WBI)'s wider thematic engagement with different partners worldwide. The...
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fluctuations and extreme output events (crises) on unemployment, poverty, and inequality. The authors find robust evidence that …
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inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution. "--World Bank web site …
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"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can...
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these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to … household inequality. This yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics, and … inequality within a broad general equilibrium framework. In addition, the authors can separate the efficiency and equity effects …
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different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for … monotonically as income rises. Correcting for non-response appreciably increases mean income and inequality, but has only a small …
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empirical strategy involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to … affected by the stock of infrastructure assets, and (2) income inequality declines with higher infrastructure quantity and … of infrastructure quantity and quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure …
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