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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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Assessing the impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil
Azzoni, Carlos Roberto; Menezes, Tatiane; Silveira, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil, considering not only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112776
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Implementing inflation targeting in Brazil: an institutional analysis
Strachman, Eduardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper shows the advantages and handicaps of implementing an inflation target (IT) regime, from a Post-Keynesian and, thus, an institutional stance. It is Post-Keynesian as long as it does not perceive any benefit in the mainstream split between monetary and fiscal policies. And it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014711
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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China and Brazil Productive Structure and Economic Growth Compared: 1980’s to 2000’s
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Polenske, Karen Rosel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources … consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while Brazil, until the mid 1990s had a strategy based on Import Substitution … Industrialization (ISI) with a relatively closed economy to the external market; however, recently Brazil has been switching to a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919791
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La demanda agregada y la distribución del ingreso: Un estudio a partir de los modelos de crecimiento kaleckianos
Loaiza Quintero, O.L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to study the mechanisms through which aggregate demand and income distribution affect the rate of growth, in a post-keynesian framework rooted in the works of Michal Kalecki. Thus, this paper addresses some issues that are put aside by neoclassical theory, which focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259165
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Redefining the Economical Power of Nations
Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259539
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Variation of famliy income, inequality and poverty in Brazil in the period 2001 to 2005
Guimarães, P. W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835994
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616935
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Crescimento Econômico E Distribuição De Renda: Uma Análise A Partir Das Estruturas Econômicas Do Brasil Contemporâneo
Almeida, L O.; Guilhoto, J. J. M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The aim of this paper is to investigate the dichotomy between economic growth and income distribution in Brazilian economy. Through input output model shocks in exogenous demand of each industry were simulated to determine which one contributes to economic growth and diminishment of Gini income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108587