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Economic growth, income distribution, and poverty in Poland during transition
Verbeek, Jos - 2004
"Paci, Sasin, and Verbeek attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522869
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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition
Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Jos - 2013
The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559898
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Sequencing fiscal decentralization
Bahl, Roy W. - 2006
"While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522147
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Sequencing Fiscal Decentralization
Bahl, Roy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2012
While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553737
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A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation
Guo, Si; Pei, Yun; Xie, Leiyu - 2022
quantitatively how fiscal decentralization affects local and central government debt accumulation and spending. In the model, the … local and central debts are inefficiently high. Consistent with empirical evidence, when fiscal decentralization widens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255222
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Hunting for leopards : long run country income dynamics in Africa
Arbache, Jorge Saba - 2008
"This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. They analyze changes in cross-country income structure and convergence, and look for evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521044
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Did growth become less pro-poor in the 1990s ?
Lopez, J. Humberto - 2006
"The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the 1990s a positive and significant correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522130
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Inequality of opportunity and economic development
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2006
"Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522244
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A normal relationship? : poverty, growth, and inequality
Lopez, J. Humberto - 2006
"Using a large cross-country income distribution dataset spanning close to 800 country-year observations from industrial and developing countries, the authors show that the size distribution of per capita income is well approximated empirically by a lognormal density. The null hypothesis that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522246
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Growth, inequality, and simulated poverty paths for Tanzania, 1992-2002
Demombynes, Gabriel - 2004
"Although Tanzania experienced relatively rapid growth in per capita GDP in the 1995-2001 period, household budget survey (HBS) data show only a modest and statistically insignificant decline in poverty between 1992 and 2001. To assess the likely trajectory of poverty rates over the course of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522902