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Inequality and trade policy : pro-poor bias of contemporary trade restrictions

Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2019

This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor trade policy is expected to have lower welfare gains or higher welfare loss at the low end of the...

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A survey of the role of fiscal policy in addressing income inequality, poverty reduction and inclusive growth

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007

commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions … investment ; globalization ; outsourcing ; technology ; capability ; energy ; trade flows ; inequality and poverty ; technology …

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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The relationship between income inquality, poverty and globalisation

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The social impact of globalization in the developing countries

Lee, Eddy (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2006

and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. -- trade ; FDI ; employment ; poverty …

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Economic mobility and fairness in a developing country : evidence from Peru

Castro, Juan Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo; Medina, Santiago; … - 2023

Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income …

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The dynamics of the regulation of labor in developing and developed countries since 1960

Campos, Nauro; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2012

This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...

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Lower and upper bound estimates of inequality of opportunity for emerging economies

Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas; Weishaar, Daniel - 2021

Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal of distributive justice. In spite of its wide acceptance and economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations that can lead to both downward and upward biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These...

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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?

Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016

; the implementation of complementary policies; the creation of regulatory capacity; attention to poverty and social impacts …

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