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Growth with Equity : Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14
Benjamin, Dwayne - 2016
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two questions: How have benefits from growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978153
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054924
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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
Bagchi, Sutirtha - 2014
and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061938
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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084076
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Structural Transformation and Income Distribution : Kuznets and Beyond
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets. It argues that his 1955 paper stands the test of time in providing insights which are relevant to understanding current phenomena like the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960255
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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : an Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2017
This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942092
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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
Borissov, Kirill - 2016
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985671
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The Inequality-Growth Plateau
Henderson, Daniel J. - 2015
We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require an a priori assumption on the underlying functional form. This approach reveals a plateau completely missed by commonly used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029626
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose - 2011
traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130794
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119297