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Sustainable Development Framework for Local Governance
Cabalfin, Michael R.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …
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Poverty and Inequality in Uttar Pradesh during 1993-94 to 2004-05 A Decomposition Analysis
Pathak, Durgesh Chandra - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It was found that … poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main problems in the state are stark inter … Bundelkhand, is making relatively impressive progress in poverty reduction. The study also tries to highlight the way anti-poverty …
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Accounting for the effect of health on cross-state income inequality in India
Sperling, Lena Lindbjerg; Kjøller-Hansen, Anders Oskar - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 252-255
We perform development accounting in accordance with Weil (2005, 2007) in a cross-state analysis of India. Results of similar magnitude are found, demonstrating that health can account for 1% to 18% of income differences depending on the health measure.
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Development with Equity and Justice Immediate Tasks for the Newly Elected Government
Dialogue, The Centre for Policy - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This Report puts forward recommendations emerging from the Conference on Development with Equity and Justice : Immediate Tasks for the Newly Elected Government organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). The Conference was held at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre during...
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A Reassessment of Inequality and Its Role in Poverty Reduction in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Artha, Rima Prama; Suryahadi, Asep; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
measures indicate a decrease in inequality, it actually increased for those below the poverty line. Finally, this study also … provides an estimation of distribution corrected growth elasticity of poverty for Indonesia. This proves to be an important … explanation for the fact that the poverty rate decreased very rapidly between 1999 and 2002 : because inequality during the peak …
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From Access to Income : Regional and Ethnic Inequality in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This study investigates regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia from five dimensions : access to education and health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first comprehensive study that looks at ethnic inequality in...
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Gender-based Indicators in Human Development - Correcting for ‘Missing Women’
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the genders enter the formulation of these indicators in such a way that it favours the better performing gender. This can lead to...
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The absence of deprivation as a measure of social well-being: An empirical investigation
Magdalou, Brice; Moyes, Patrick - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 1, pp. 75-79
The generalised Lorenz criterion is widely used for making welfare comparisons within and across countries on the basis of their income distributions. Experimental studies have challenged this way of proceeding by showing that the principle of transfers, which underlies the generalised Lorenz...
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Is income inequality persistent? Evidence using panel stationarity tests, 1870–2011
Islam, Md. Rabiul; Madsen, Jakob B. - In: Economics Letters 127 (2015) C, pp. 17-19
Using data on inequality for 21 OECD countries over the period 1870–2011 this paper tests the Piketty hypothesis that income inequality is likely to grow in the 21st century. It is shown that the null hypothesis of trend stationarity of inequality cannot be rejected at conventional...
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Rising Inequality in Asia and Policy Implications
Zhuang, Juzhong; Kanbur, Ravi; Rhee, Changyong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper looks at the recent trends of rising inequality in developing Asia, asks why inequality matters, examines the driving forces of rising inequality, and proposes policy options for tackling high and rising inequality. Technological change, globalization, and market-oriented reform have...
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