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Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil’s largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these … measures of inequality, along with contemporary covariates and other historical variables I assess the impact of colonial …
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sustainability challenges, such as rising income inequality, wealth concentration and growing carbon emissions. In this regard, an … and wealth, including land, industrial or financial capital) across individuals as well as between the private and the … and development: wealth redistribution. The prevailing approach generally covers income redistribution and the provision …
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point we make two contributions. First we quantify the phenomena of poverty, richness, and inequality in housing comfort … mainly from complementary comfort and to a lesser extent from basic comfort items. Inequality in housing comfort, measured by …
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the distribution of wealth between European countries, and (2) that patterns of wealth inequality differ strongly from … patterns of income inequality. Surprisingly high levels of wealth disparity were found in the social democratic welfare regimes …Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role …
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contributing factor to racial disparities in wealth. …
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The paper examines marketing patterns when interest and storage loss rates are greater in rural zones, representing informal sector storage usually on-farm, than in urban zones, representing formal sector storage off-farm. Empirical results indicate that divergences in interest and storage loss...
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- educational values: determination and perseverance and being against saving - right wing acceptance of inequality - educational …, the new data of the World Values Survey, 2010-2014 were released, containing yet another enormous wealth of new data …
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• educational values: determination and perseverance and being against saving • right wing acceptance of inequality • educational … yet another enormous wealth of new data, including on the Muslim world. We have chosen to concentrate on two phenomena …
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Nelson Mandela said, “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against White domination, and I have fought against Black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony...
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fallacy of identifying utility with wealth to be proved, for example, the article shows that “marginal utility” is equivalent …
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