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Inequality of opportunity and economic development

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2006

"Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522244

Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil

Bourguignon, François - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523263

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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Global redistribution of income

Bourguignon, François - 2006

with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522101

Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam

Wagstaff, Adam - 2005

devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …

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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers

Halac, Marina - 2003

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A poverty-inequality trade-off?

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

"The idea that developing countries face a trade-off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on thinking about development policy. The experience of developing countries in the 1990s does not, however, reveal any sign of a systematic trade-off between measures of absolute...

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Unemployment-poverty trade-offs

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523037

Zooming in : from aggregate volatility to income distribution

Calderón, César - 2009

"In contrast with a growing literature on the drivers of aggregate volatility in developing countries, its consequences in terms of individual incomes have received less attention. This paper looks at the impact of cyclical output fluctuations and extreme output events (crises) on unemployment,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394189

Global income inequality : what it is and why it matters

Milanovic, Branko - 2006

. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution. "--World Bank web site …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522195

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