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Understanding Chile's social unrest in an international perspective

Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij; Ricci, Luca Antonio - 2021

We aim to provide a broad descriptive overview of Chile's social issues, in comparison to other countries and over time, in order to place the recent social unrest in historical and international perspectives which can help prepare the ground for future policy priorities. We follow an eclectic...

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Reallocating public spending to reduce income inequality : can it work?

Doumbia, Djeneba; Kinda, Tidiane - 2019

improves income distribution in countries with weak institutions and at higher risk of conflict. Reallocating social protection …

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Does IT help? : information technology in banking and entrepreneurship

Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2021

This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our … entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow against collateral. We provide empirical evidence that job creation by … lending channel for IT banks, entrepreneurship increases more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. In line with the …

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Finance, growth, and inequality

Levine, Ross - 2021

Finance and growth emerged as a distinct field of economics during the last three decades as economists integrated the fields of finance and economic growth and then explored the ramifications of the functioning of financial systems on economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. In this...

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Financial inclusion : what have we learned so far? : what do we have to learn?

Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Belhaj, Mohamed; Ben … - 2020

The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in interest in financial inclusion, both from policymakers and researchers. This paper surveys the main findings from the literature, documenting the trends over time and gaps that have arisen across regions, income levels, and gender, among...

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Measuring income inequality and implications for economic transmission channels

Blotevogel, Robert; Imamoglu, Eslem; Moriyama, Kenji; … - 2020

We study the channels that theoretically transmit the effects of inequality to economic growth, unlike much of the existing literature that focuses on the direct linkage. The role of inequality in these transmission channels is difficult to pin down and varies with the particular inequality...

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SME financial inclusion for sustained growth in the Middle East and Central Asia

Ghassibe, Mishel; Appendino, Maximiliano; Elsadek … - 2019

This paper offers empirical evidence that greater financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can promote higher economic growth and employment, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia regions. First, we show that countries with higher SME financial inclusion exhibit more...

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Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses

Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2015

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...

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Social spending in Korea : can it foster sustainable and inclusive growth?

Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2012

Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea....

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Infrastructure and income distribution in ASEAN-5 : what are the links?

Seneviratne, Dulani; Sun, Yan - 2013

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