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We estimate the world distribution of income by integrating individual income distributions for 125 countries between … 1970 and 1998. We estimate poverty rates and headcounts by integrating the density function below the $1/day and $2/day … poverty lines. We find that poverty rates decline substantially over the last twenty years. We compute poverty headcounts and …
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globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …
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compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen … person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We …
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"Business climate indexes" characterize state economic policies, and are often used to try to influence economic policy debate. However, they are also useful in research as summaries of a large number of state policies that cannot be studied simultaneously. Prior research found that business...
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matched March CPS surveys, focusing on the effectiveness of minimum wages in reducing poverty. The results show that over a … one-to-two year period, minimum wages increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability … that previously non-poor families fall into poverty. The estimated increase in the number of non-poor families that fall …
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impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …
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development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
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, 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 …
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dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …
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development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467709