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Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over … the effectiveness of regional and municipal governments in reducing inequality via poverty-reduction transfers, suggesting …
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We perform development accounting in accordance with Weil (2005, 2007) in a cross-state analysis of India. Results of similar magnitude are found, demonstrating that health can account for 1% to 18% of income differences depending on the health measure.
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As the Chilean government seeks to reduce both poverty and inequality through cash transfers to poor households, local … evidence that cash transfers had highly variable impacts on poverty and inequality at the county level in 2002. In particular … considerable reductions in poverty and inequality. In addition, the strength of the governing mandate weakly influences the …
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from non-representative surveys yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper therefore estimates poverty … and inequality using poverty mapping methods. In contrast to previous studies, however, we use ethnicity rather than …, but that inequality rates are also lower for indigenous groups. These reliable estimates of poverty and inequality may …
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Despite success in reducing poverty over the last twenty years, inequality in Chile has remained virtually unchanged … reductions in poverty as well as economic growth and local inequality has been shown to affect Duch outcomes as violence and …
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The generalised Lorenz criterion is widely used for making welfare comparisons within and across countries on the basis of their income distributions. Experimental studies have challenged this way of proceeding by showing that the principle of transfers, which underlies the generalised Lorenz...
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Using data on inequality for 21 OECD countries over the period 1870–2011 this paper tests the Piketty hypothesis that income inequality is likely to grow in the 21st century. It is shown that the null hypothesis of trend stationarity of inequality cannot be rejected at conventional...
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and anti-poverty effects of state education are illustrated. …
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