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Poverty and Inequality in the Years of Globalisation

Milone, Luciano Marcello; Pizzuti, Felice Roberto - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2004) 2

policies, but at the same time poverty and inequality have remained high or have increased. Prospects are not encouraging for …

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The Debate on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: why Measurement Matters

Ravallion, Martin - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2004) 1

progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of “globalization.” This paper provides a non … evidence suggests that, if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …, then the Millennium Development Goal of halving the 1990 aggregate poverty rate by 2015 will be achieved on time in the …

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Accounting for the effect of health on cross-state income inequality in India

Sperling, Lena Lindbjerg; Kjøller-Hansen, Anders Oskar - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 252-255

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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Beyond Gdp: How the Times Are Changing for Italian Families

Cannari, Luigi; D'Alessio, Giovanni - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2012) 3

This paper describes the evolution of the main indicators of economic wellbeing and inequality in Italy from the aftermath of World War II onwards, showing that their dynamics have differed over time periods and population subgroups. It also presents some reflections on the adequacy of per...

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The absence of deprivation as a measure of social well-being: An empirical investigation

Magdalou, Brice; Moyes, Patrick - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 1, pp. 75-79

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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Is income inequality persistent? Evidence using panel stationarity tests, 1870–2011

Islam, Md. Rabiul; Madsen, Jakob B. - In: Economics Letters 127 (2015) C, pp. 17-19

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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Estimating the value and distributional effects of free state schooling

Andreou, Sofia N.; Koutsampelas, Christos; Pashardes, Panos - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 2, pp. 303-305

and anti-poverty effects of state education are illustrated. …

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