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speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …
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Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …
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into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …
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, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …
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The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By...
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This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the...
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We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … at HDI thresholds of 0.725, 0.727 and 0.778 and; (ii) inequality in UMIC and LA with HDI thresholds of respectively 0 … (ii) inequality in UMIC, CEE and LA at HDI thresholds of 0.665, 0.736 and 0.726 respectively. The findings are discussed …
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between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …) and negatively correlated with inequality in Latin American countries (LA). Second, growing use of mobile phones to send …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …
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This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 …" contribute to reducing inequality in countries at the bottom and top ends of the inequality distribution, while (ii) "mobiles ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …
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