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Measuring inequality of opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Barros, Ricardo Paes de (contributor) - 2009

Inequality of opportunity : what it is, how it can be measured, and why it matters -- A human opportunity index for children -- Uses and policy applications of the human opportunity index -- Inequality of economic opportunity in seven Latin American countries -- Inequality of opportunity in...

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Lobbying and agricultural trade policy in the United States

Gawande, Kishore S. - 2006

"The authors study whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this model using agricultural data. The authors test the...

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The structure of lobbying and protection in U.S. agriculture

Gawande, Kishore S. - 2005

the 1991-2000 period to investigate the relationship between lobbying spending and agricultural protection. A detailed … sectors the majority of contributions are made by very few PACs. Econometric analysis reveals that lobbying spending by … strong association between the average U.S. tariff on goods that benefit from U.S. export subsidies and lobbying spending …

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The role of importers and exporters in the determination of the U.S. tariff preferences granted to Latin America

Silva, Peri Agostinho da - 2005

Latin American exporters and U.S. importers' lobbying efforts have a significant and important role in determining the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522681

Economic growth, income distribution, and poverty in Poland during transition

Verbeek, Jos - 2004

"Paci, Sasin, and Verbeek attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a...

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Brazil : Inequality and Economic Development, Volume 1. Policy Report

World Bank - 2013

The present Report is motivated by the coming together o f three widespread perceptions about inequality, two somewhat newer and one long-standing. The two newer ones are; (i) that inequality may matter for the country's economic development, and (ii) that public policy can and should do...

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Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income

Korinek, Anton - 2005

"The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U...

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Analyzing the distributional impact of selected reforms

Coudouel, Aline (contributor); … - 2005

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Analyzing the distributional impact of selected reforms

Coudouel, Aline (contributor); … - 2005

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Conditional cash transfers and the equity-efficiency debate

Das, Jishnu - 2004

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