inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare …Purpose – Measures of inequality determine the effectiveness of social and economic policies aimed at reducing … improving impacts of reducing income inequality in the case of Fiji. Using Fiji's Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2002 …

”-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value – It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic … survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the “mobile phone”-inequality …

inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare …Purpose – Measures of inequality determine the effectiveness of social and economic policies aimed at reducing … improving impacts of reducing income inequality in the case of Fiji. Using Fiji's Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2002 …

in explaining the latter’s effect on economic growth in a panel setting. Via a specially formulated theoretical framework …, the authors also test whether the growth-effect of social capital is direct or indirect, and if it is indirect, can … property rights be the link between social capital and growth. Design/methodology/approach The authors begin with testing the …

Economic development, as contrasted from “growth” (in the sense of increase in GNP) has been a subject of interest for …

Deals with the influence of the labour growth rate on the capital per head in an economy with a pay‐as‐you‐go social … shock on the labour growth rate. A decline of the labour growth rate might reduce the maximum sustainable social security …

economic growth in an attempt to elucidate the poor economic performance of many mineral-dependent countries. Design …