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We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and...
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poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …
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Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual …
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This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...
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We provide an interesting empirical evidence dealing with the cross country data on equality i.e. movements of Gini coefficient over last four decades. This seems to suggest a robust empirical evidence that the growth or change in inequality across nations has a negative relation with initial...
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How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we estimate a heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete markets and portfolio choice between liquid and illiquid assets. The model enlarges the set of shocks and...
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that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower …
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Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...
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This paper investigates how the heterogenous incomes and preferences of potential donors affect the timing of contribution decisions when it is endogenously determined by contributors themselves. More specifically, we use a simple setting with two donors, Cobb-Douglas preferences, and complete...
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Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …
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