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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence
Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2013
While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, the authors study whether financial development is pro-poor: Does financial development disproportionately raise the income of the poor? Using a broad cross-country sample, the authors find that the...
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Development and inequality : evidence from an endogenous switching regression without regime separation
Chen, Zhuo - In: Economics letters 96 (2007) 2, pp. 269-274
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Income inequality and economic development : evidence from the threshold regression model
Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasēs - In: Economics letters 69 (2000) 2, pp. 207-212
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Is the Developing World Catching up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality Since 1980
Dollar, David - 2013
developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world … developing world population living on less than $1 per day was cut in half since 1981. Trend #3: Global inequality (among … citizens of the world) has declined - modestly -- reversing a 200-year-old trend toward higher inequality. Trend #4: There is …
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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Walton, Michael - 2012
Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...
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China's Pattern of Growth : Moving to Sustainability and Reducing Inequality
Kuijs, Louis; Wang, Tao - 2012
The authors study the sources and pattern of China's impressive economic growth over the past 25 years and show that key issues currently of concern to policymakers-widening inequality, rural poverty, and resource intensity-are to a large extent rooted in China's growth strategy, and resolving...
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New evidence on the role of cognitive skill in economic development
Laurini, Márcio Poletti; Andrade, Eduardo de Carvalho - In: Economics letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 123-126
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Did Growth Become Less Pro-Poor in the 1990s?
Lopez, Humberto - 2012
The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the 1990s a positive and significant correlation...
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When Is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence
Kraay, Aart - 2013
Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. According to this definition there are three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (1) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (2) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (3) a poverty-reducing pattern of...
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