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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453984
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345748
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Understanding the growth of the middle class in Bolivia
Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2021
In this paper we aim to disentangle how sectoral economic growth affects the size of the middle class, using state-level data of Bolivia from 2000 to 2017 and breaking the three main economic activities into subsectors to attain more-specific results. Because the data from Bolivia are limited,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599748
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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries : the case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Checchi, Daniele; Cupák, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961146
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Household earnings in Putin's Russia : distributional changes across socioeconomic groups, 2000-2016
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2022
Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian population faces a crisis with deep but differentiated consequences across socioeconomic groups. We examine the evolution of earnings and societal earnings gaps throughout Vladimir...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455206
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Institutions do not rule : reassessing the driving forces of economic development
Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518018
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In search of larger per capita incomes : how to prioritize across productivity determinants?
Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016
This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457783
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The productivity gap in Latin America : lessons from 50 years of development
Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Apolinar, Sergio - 2016
This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472124
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Demographics in MENA countries : a major driver for economic growth
Forouheshfar, Yeganeh; Mekkaoui-de Freitas, Najat el-; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244534