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growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. …This paper presents estimates of world output growth from 1970 to 2000, the distribution of income among countries and …
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We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a …
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Can digital payments systems help reduce extreme hunger? Humanitarian needs are at their highest since 1945, aid … budgets are falling behind, and hunger is concentrating in fragile states where repression and aid diversion present major … World Food Programme's global figure for cash-based transfers. These savings can help reduce hunger without additional …
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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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dramatic drop in cooperation (and growth), when inequality is increased by a selfserving dictator. No such effect is observed … adverse growth effect of the interaction between the degree and the genesis of inequality. We conclude that economies giving … equal opportunities to all are not likely to suffer retarded growth due to inequality in the way economies with self …
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partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined … inequality in rich countries. It is argued that using some unadjusted inequality measures in growth regressions may yield …
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theory involving capital and labour without neo-classical assumptions. Interestingly the growth story of the model seems to … be observationally equivalent to the Solow (1956) model of steady state growth. It can easily and effectively reflect on … critical contemporary issues without the ammunitions of a more complex neo-classical system. Trade pampers inequality all …
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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 Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
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When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … income growth than the standard measure. We apply these measures to long-term income data from the United States and find … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …
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A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy … provides the limit to growth. Maximin value is interpreted as a dynamic environmental-economic carrying capacity and current …
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