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the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …
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other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world … and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. …
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In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of … between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that …
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poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …
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demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
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We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross … than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita. …
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commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions …
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Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
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