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trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth …The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and …
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This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … for 25 EU countries over the period 2007-2019, we show that market income inequality is associated with higher growth in … NBS) boosts growth in the short run, driven by the consumption and private investment channels. On the other hand …
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This paper looks into the interrelation between economic growth, inequality, and poverty. Using the notion of pro …-poor growth, this study examines to what extent the poor benefit from economic growth. First, various approaches to defining and … measuring pro-poor growth are scrutinized using a variety of criteria. It is argued that the satisfaction of a monotonicity …
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This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income … samples. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained … using constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
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In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st … century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …
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An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and … judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and … redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …
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Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument – the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …
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