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The Matthew effect and modern finance : on the nexus between wealth inequality, financial development and financial technology
Frost, Jon; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Gambacorta, Romina - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240816
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Financial structure and income inequality
Brei, Michael; Ferri, Giovanni; Gambacorta, Leonardo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979930
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World changes in inequality : an overview of facts, causes, consequences and policies
Bourguignon, François - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758413
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Demographics will reverse three multi-decade global trends
Goodhart, Charles A. E.; Pradhan, Manoj - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758416
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The Luxembourg Income Study
Ravallion, Martin - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878110
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The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An overview
Lustig, Nora; Amábile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … at government costs, they reduce inequality in all countries by considerably more than cash transfers, reflecting their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878122
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Influence functions for distributional statistics
Essama-Nssah, B.; Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
central tendency, inequality and poverty and also measures of the degree of pro-poorness of a shock- or policy-induced change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878137
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Rising food prices and household welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643263
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ). A diagnostic framework to assess governments’ fiscal policies. Handbook
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249979