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inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor …
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growth experience; (ii) rising inequality as a threat to growth, and (iii) the case for continued development assistance to …
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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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The economist’s conceptualisation of inequality in terms of interpersonal distribution of income or wealth, and the … tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for … reckoning inequality across social groups. In this paper they show that certain simple statistical tools to analyse categorical …
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They conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. They focus on China‟s decades old household registration system, or the hukou institution, which categorizes citizens into urban and rural residents, and...
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This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop successive poverty profiles for Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a ‘cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to poverty determination (an...
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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] …
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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 …
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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 …
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In this paper they analyze the relation between inequality, corruption and competition in a developing economy context …-input costs which they could avoid by bribing inspectors. Due to information asymmetry and wealth inequality, the credit market … inequality can lead to an increase in corruption along with greater competition. [Research Paper No. 2005/46] …
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