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Fiscal decentralization and the shadow economy

Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …

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Another look at foreign aid

Ranis, Gustav - 2013

The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...

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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics

Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022

What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century. This article critically reviews the recent empirical and theoretical literature on the complex interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality...

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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?

Sumner, Andrew - 2013

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...

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The world's two new middles : growth, precarity, structural change, and the limitations of the special case

Sumner, Andrew - 2016

This paper discusses the emergence of two new middles since the Cold War, namely middle-income countries and people living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that although there has been substantial economic growth,...

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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015

We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in...

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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship

Leyaro, Vincent - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as inequality can be considered a proxy for 'governance...

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Reversal of the Kuznets curve : study on the inequality-development relation using top income shares data

Tuominen, Elina - 2015

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The top income shares data are of high quality and cover about a century for some countries and thus provide an interesting opportunity to study slow development processes. The...

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Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited : comment on "Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence"

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2020

An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does...

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Redistribution around the world : causes and consequences

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2016

This paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature. In particular, we use the latest version of the UNU-WIDER' Income Inequality Database to have the best available estimates of both pre- and...

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