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Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …
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Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis...
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In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an … measure of opportunity inequality. Then, we repeat the exercise using the cognitive abilities in a sample of 15-year old … inequality of opportunity. -- equality of opportunity ; justice ; education …
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inequality and segregation can be broken. …
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This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to...
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processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between …
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role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find … that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011 …. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find …
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curbing rising income inequality. …
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intensifying socio-spatial divisions caused by both increasing inequality and urban development processes. This paper will examine … the roles of increasing inequality and urban-development processes in reshaping the socio-spatial structure of the Tel …. During the research period (1995-2008) inequality in Israel has risen substantially following the integration in the global …
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