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"The authors compare the two merger control systems currently employed worldwide: a mandatory system based on merger size threshold and a voluntary system with ex-post monitoring and fines. The voluntary system possesses two informational advantages: (i) the enforcement agency employs more...
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"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....
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This report assesses the impact of fiscal policy, both revenue and expenditure, on inequality and poverty in the … Section IV, starting with fiscal policy’s net impact on inequality, followed by its impact on poverty incidence. A comparison …This report assesses the impact of fiscal policy, both revenue and expenditure, on inequality and poverty in the …
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Russia saw strong growth in 2021, with momentum weakening late in the year. Growth will slow as Russia battles COVID-19 and elevated inflation. Globally, environmental sustainability is becoming central to the economic agenda. The challenge for Russia is to fundamentally transform its economic...
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"While providing the most reliable method of evaluating social programs, randomized experiments in industrial and developing countries alike are accompanied by political risks and ethical issues that jeopardize the chances of adopting them. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from...
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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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. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income …
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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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