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The Poverty of Nations : A Quantitative Exploration
Chari, V. V. - 1996
We document regularities in the distribution of relative incomes and patterns of investment in countries and over time. We develop a quantitative version of the neoclassical growth model with a broad measure of capital in which investment decisions are affected by distortions. These distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473450
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African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2010
The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462876
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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
Beck, Thorsten - 2005
, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467461
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The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century : Growth in Africa
Artadi, Elsa V. - 2003
worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468832
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The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequality
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2002
compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469810
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Stuck in the Middle? Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Botswana
McCaig, Brian - 2015
that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457639
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The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare : A "Rapid Response" Methodology
Friedman, Jed - 2001
Analyzing the distributional impacts of economic crises is important and, unfortunately, an ever more pressing need. If policymakers are to intervene to help those most adversely impacted, then policymakers need to identify those who have been most harmed and the magnitude of that harm....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470154
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Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470752
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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2000
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are associated with reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470957
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The Income and Tax Share of Very High Income Households, 1960-1995
Feenberg, Daniel R. - 2000
This paper presents new information on the fraction of adjusted gross income, and of wages and salaries, that is reported by taxpayers in the top one half of one percent of the income distribution. This corresponds to roughly five hundred thousand households in the late 1990s. This paper relies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471249