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Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...

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Perception of Inequality and Social Mobility

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2014

This paper explores the perceptions of inequality and their associations with social mobility exploiting the ISSP and LiTS cross-country data sets. These perceptions vary across countries as well as across individuals within countries. We try to explain this variation by examining the diverse...

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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2008

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

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Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate

Ravallion, Martin - 2004

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The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality : why measurement matters

Ravallion, Martin - 2003

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Spatial poverty traps?

Jalan, Jyotsna - 1997

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