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Deforestation in the Himalayas: Myths and Reality
Baland, Jean Marie; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2014
include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945341
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Remoteness and Unbalanced Growth: Understanding Divergence Across Indian Districts
Das, Samarjit; Ghate, Chetan; Robertson, Peter E. - eSocialSciences - 2013
The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and commodities across state borders. A new data set of district level income and socio-economic data is used to explore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945451
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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Changes in Poverty Profile in China
Shi, Li - eSocialSciences - 2008
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].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341833
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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups – Scheduled Castes (SCs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017997
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On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652075
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Three Observations on the Challenges of Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006
growth experience; (ii) rising inequality as a threat to growth, and (iii) the case for continued development assistance to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321485
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Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from within China
Lu, Ming; Wan, Guanghua; Chen, Zhao - eSocialSciences - 2010
aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper …, along with other variables, to regional inequality. [Discussion Paper No. 2004/10] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727213
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Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done?
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It … reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the … two are inter-connected. It discusses policy alternative policies to counter extreme poverty and inequality. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740429
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Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus
Nissanke, Machiko; Thorbecke, Erik - eSocialSciences - 2010
trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740431