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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition
Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Jos - 2013
The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...
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Redistributing income under fiscal vertical imbalance
Bouton, Laurent (contributor); Gassner, Marjorie (contributor) - 2005 - September 2005, revised January 2007
From the literature on decentralization, it appears that the fiscal vertical imbalance is somehow inherent to multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259921
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Sequencing Fiscal Decentralization
Bahl, Roy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2012
While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …
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A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation
Guo, Si; Pei, Yun; Xie, Leiyu - 2022
quantitatively how fiscal decentralization affects local and central government debt accumulation and spending. In the model, the … local and central debts are inefficiently high. Consistent with empirical evidence, when fiscal decentralization widens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255222
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Relative income change and pro-poor growth
Kośny, Marek; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2015
Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of people, taking either the situation of this group in the previous period, or the average change in the population, as reference point. By contrast, we propose a measure of...
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the ‘global middle class’ as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China’s expanding middle class in international perspective. China’s global middle class has grown rapidly...
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Left-behind vs. unequal places : interpersonal inequality, economic decline, and the rise of populism in the US and Europe
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Terrero-Dávila, Javier; Lee, Neil - 2023
Economic change over the past twenty years has rendered many individuals and territories vulnerable, leading to greater interpersonal and interterritorial inequality. This rising inequality is seen as a root cause of populism. Yet, there is no comparative evidence as to whether this discontent...
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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies : demographic, economic, and political determinants
Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2013
This article analyzes the determinants of market income distribution and governmental redistribution. The dependent variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the percent reduction in the Gini index by taxes and...
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The political economy of compensatory redistribution : unemployment, inequality and policy choice
Pontusson, Jonas; Weisstanner, David - 2016
This paper explores common trends in inequality and redistribution across OECD countries from the late 1980s to 2013. Low‐end inequality rises during economic downturns while rising top‐end inequality is associated with economic growth. Most countries retreated from redistribution from the...
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Poverty and place in North America : overview
Bane, Mary Jo (contributor); Zenteno, René M. (contributor) - 2005
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