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quality of governance) and the degree of market segmentation (depending on the level of ethnic fractionalization). The model …
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per capita affect income inequality and how they differ. The results suggest a U-shaped relationship of both measures of … GDP per capita is used, inequality is higher, leading to the conclusion that countries with policies that inflate GDP … behavioral similarity between the income of the richest 10% of population and income inequality. Lastly, there is also a …
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transfer payments, and poverty and inequality are of greatest concern for less developed recipient countries. …
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Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative … rents-induced inequality. …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …
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relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …
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This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...
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a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in …
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level of income per capita (with negative effect), inflation and income inequality (both with positive effect) are the …
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In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …
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