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the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
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In this paper, we revisit the inequality-growth relationship using an enhanced panel data set with improved inequality …, similar to Forbes we find a significant positive association between inequality and subsequent economic growth in the full … relationship between inequality and growth emerges due to the particular timing of inequality and growth dynamics in transition …
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global …. China's rapid economic growth is by far the most important factor underlying almost all of them, notwithstanding sharply …
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). For the analysis, the toolbox of pro-poor growth analysis is applied to several educational indicators. We find drastic … rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin …
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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
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in Colombia. We use multidimensional propoor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health … selected weights. Results show that while income and expenditures fluctuated according to economic growth, reflecting the …
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Although the literature on emission inequality is abundant, this study will differentiate itself by focusing on … measures on emission inequality based on household characteristics as well as decompose it into sources of emission. Employing … emission inequality tends to decline until the middle quintiles but then further increases in expenditure level and worsens …
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believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post …-conquest Americas, and that this fact supported rent-seeking and anti-growth institutions which help explain the disappointing growth …
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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …
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