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, inter-firms arrears and barter in transition economies are connected. Based on a survey of 165 barter deals in the Ukraine …
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This paper constructs a simple theoretical model to study the implications of globalization for inequality and … redistribution. It shows that when globalization increases inequality, a policymaker interested in maximizing the sum of welfares of … all agents increases redistribution. Empirically, the paper examines the effects of globalization on inequality and …
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of trade openness on inequality in China and transition countries. …
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relationship between globalization and inequality in the transition countries including China and most countries of Middle and … characterize most advanced economies but are less developed in transition economies, may have moderated effects of globalization on …This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the …
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tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …
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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 …
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This paper is the first attempt towards directly testing the existence of status seeking behavior of the poor for a developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across...
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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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This paper reviews changes in global, between-country and within-country inequality over 1980-2000 against the background of the shifts that occurred in this area during the globalisation of 1870-1914. The paper finds that recent changes in global and between-country inequality are not marked...
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Inequality is an important threat to the globalization of the world economy that we experience today. This contribution … a globalization backlash . The closing of commodity and capital markets did always take place during or 5-10 years after …
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