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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and population sub-groups. [Discussion Paper No. 2001/21].
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twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact …
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. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality … trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …
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This note seeks to show that the debate on ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ is sterile and largely academic with few policy insights.
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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth, manifested in … on developing countries has led to an upsurge of interest in linkages between policy reform, growth, inequality and … poverty. They use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the links between growth, inequality and …
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Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a â …
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great inequality which also eventually resulted in slowing down of investment and growth and other problems like inflation …
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This paper applies Carter and Barrett’s theory of assets poverty traps to a unique longitudinal survey from rural Bangladesh. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to examine the shape of the dynamic asset frontier, the number of equilibria, and whether land and nonland assets...
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The financial crisis of 2007-09 began as a local problem in the mortgage finance market in the United States and Europe but, within months, escalated into a general global financial crisis, resulting in collapsing investment not just in developed nations but also in Shanghai, Rio and Mumbai, and...
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