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Growth, Inequality and Well-Being: Comparisons across Space and Time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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Growth, Inequality, and Well-Being: Intertemporal and Global Comparisons

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

. Our global analysis covering ca. 81 per cent of the world's population demonstrates that global well-being is at least 50 … per cent smaller than world per capita income if the unequal income distribution is also factored in. Conversely, growth … in world well-being has been larger than world income growth between 1970-1998. Since the inclusion of inequality has an …

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Gender-Related Indicators of Well-Being

Klasen, Stephan - 2004

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involved a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...

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Perspectives on the world income distribution: beyond twin peaks towards welfare conclusions

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

This paper contributes towards the growing debate concerning the world distribution of in- come and its evolution over …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265084

Income distribution dynamics and pro-poor growth in the world from 1970 to 2003

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

We estimate and analyze the global income distribution from national log-normal income distributions for the years 1970 to 2003, as well as the income distribution of seven regional subsamples. From these distributions we obtain measures for global and regional inequality and poverty, and find...

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Twin peaks or three components?: analyzing the world's cross-country distribution of income

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

In this paper we analyze the world´s cross-national distribution of income and its evolution from 1970 to 2003. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265088

A general framework for estimating CO2 emissions

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

This paper proposes a new analytical framework with which to analyze the determinants of global CO2 emissions. It contributes to the existing literature by examining the determinants of CO2 emissions using a flexible functional form (transcendental logarithmic model), taking into account the...

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Inequality in human development: An empirical assessment of thirty-two countries

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Ken; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2008

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. We use a simple approach, which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows to compare the...

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Cross-country heterogeneity and the trade-income relationship

Herzer, Dierk - 2010

This paper makes the following contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables and endogenous regressors to estimate the effect of trade on income for 75 developed and developing...

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How well did the Kyoto Protocol work? A dynamic-GMM approach with external instruments

Grunewald, Nicole; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of the Kyoto Protocol on CO2 emissions. With this aim a dynamic panel data model is estimated for a cross-section of 213 countries over the period 1960 to 2009. The model, based on a STIRPAT approach, also integrates the EKC approach and specifically considers the...

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