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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
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We study optimal climate policy in a global economy where regions differ in wealth and climate vulnerability. Carbon emissions from production lead to output losses, and there is a technology for emissions absorption. We provide an aggregation result: the model with heterogeneity can be cast...
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poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …
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Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …
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to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …
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strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …
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the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …
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benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …
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The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
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