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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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Global Poverty and Inequality : A Review of the Evidence

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

Drawing on a compilation of data from household surveys representing 130 countries, many over a period of 25 years, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the negative correlations between both poverty and inequality...

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What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America?

Acosta, Pablo; Calder??n, Cesar; Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2012

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have...

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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Disparities During China's Economic Reform

Dollar, David - 2012

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of...

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A Normal Relationship? Poverty, Growth, and Inequality

Lopez, J. Humberto; Serv??n, Luis - 2012

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 0 hypothesis that per...

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Did Growth Become Less Pro-Poor in the 1990s?

Lopez, Humberto - 2012

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...

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Growth, Distribution, and Poverty in Africa : Messages from the 1990s

Christiaensen, Luc; Demery, Lionel; Paternostro, Stefano - 2013

Christiaensen, Demery, and Paternostro review recent evidence on the trends in household well-being in Africa during the 1990s. They draw on the findings of a series of studies on poverty dynamics that use the better data sets now available. The authors begin by taking a broad view of poverty,...

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When Is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence

Kraay, Aart - 2013

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. According to this definition there are three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (1) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (2) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (3) a poverty-reducing pattern of...

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