This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …

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 …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …. -- Tax-benefit policy ; inequality ; poverty ; decomposition ; microsimulation …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new … analysis show that there is a significant relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality. Globalisation … leads to poverty reduction and it reduces income inequality. The relationship between globalisation and poverty remains …

In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. -- trade ; FDI ; employment ; poverty …

A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press … parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … Global Poverty, written by Atkinson, from which this book was developed. The new book is more than four hundred published …