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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
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La pobreza y las clases: Dinámicas y estrategias en Bolivia
Buzaglo, Jorge; Calzadilla, Alvaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Income distribution among social classes, a preferred topic by the classical economists, has not often been frequented by later scholars. Some recent studies show a new interest, and a generalized increase in income concentration in favor of the capitalist class, particularly in Latin America....
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Simulating extended reproduction: Poverty reduction and class dynamics in Bolivia
Buzaglo, Jorge; Calzadilla, Alvaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
An extended reproduction model is used to simulate the effects of alternative poverty reduction strategies. Three policy variables are introduced: (de)indebtedness policy, investment policy and income distribution policy, contributing respectively to the objectives of policy sovereignty,...
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Islam and Human Development
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper aims to present the Islamic appraisal of established theories in academic literature of development economics, both in classical and neo-classical economics. The paper also explains the Islamic concept of human development and shows it to be more welfare maximizing to humans in their...
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Declining inequality in Bolivia: How and Why
Fortun Vargas, Jonathan M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Latin America has often been depicted as one of the most unequal regions in the world. However, after the rising of inequality, the figure decline dramatically starting from the year 2000. In this setting, Bolivia has been one of the poorest performers on income distribution efforts, lately,...
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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Structure versus Agency in the Great Deprivation of 21st Century
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely from the criticism of relying on irrational and irresponsible behavior of millions, including that of the most astute financial experts, but are also at a loss to explain why such...
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Looking East, looking West: Penang as a knowledge hub
Gerke, Solvay; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...
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Services-led industrialization in India: Assessment and lessons
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
discusses the nature of services, their distinction from products, and their categorization. It provides an overview of India … growth potentials. Based on this evidence, it appears that India’s manufacturing sector development may have been constrained … of different growth paths, the challenges of education and manpower training to support and sustain India’s development …
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