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On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance

Ferreira, Ines A.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Tarp, Finn - 2021

Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major … literature by taking stock and providing an overview of current knowledge of the impact of income inequality on three important … outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

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Ordinal multidimensional inequality

Sonne-Schmidt, Christoffer; Tarp, Finn; Østerdal, Lars … - 2013

apply the model to childhood poverty in Mozambique. …

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How polarized is the global income distribution?

Roope, Laurence; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2018

global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During …

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Inequality, institutions, and cooperation

Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020

We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary cooperation, and whether this relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large-scale lab-in-the-field public goods experiment with over...

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Global income polarization : relative and absolute perspectives

Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; … - 2023

-2020. The study relies on group data to implement a flexible parametric model to obtain the global income distribution and … reflects whether individuals cluster with peers of similar income or are segregated from different income groups. Consequently …

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A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa

Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi; Hussain, M. Azhar; … - 2017

Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant … and useful, the multidimensional poverty index is in reality inconsistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights … consistency with basic principles, discuss the properties of the multidimensional poverty index and first-order dominance, and …

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Absolute poverty lines

Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi; Tarp, Finn - 2016

Private consumption capabilities form only one facet of comprehensive living standards assessments, but they are an important facet whose measurement should be done well. Measurement is complex due to a multitude of methodological choices, which often interact with imperfect data and a desire...

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