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This paper addresses the potential effects of the Doha round of trade negotiations on poverty and income distribution … distribution and poverty analysis. Of particular importance is the fact that the representative household hypothesis is replaced by …,055 Brazilian households and 263,938 adults. Poverty and income distribution indices are computed over the entire sample of …
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The authors provide estimates of poverty at the regional level in India, spanning the 1990s. Such estimates have not … developed by Elbers and others (2003). The results indicate a less rapid decline of poverty, at the all-India level than has …
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The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …
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poverty and distributional impacts, the model includes ten households in each of the seven federal okrugs, where household …
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Important differences exist between communities with respect to their needs, capacities, and circumstances. As central governments are not able to discern these differences fully, they seek to achieve their policy objectives by relying on decentralized mechanisms that use local information....
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Subnational fiscal autonomy-the basis for fiscal federalism in modern federations-is meant to serve two roles. First, local control over revenue collection is meant to provide a check on the capacity of central authorities to tax arbitrarily local capital. Second, retention of taxes raised...
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This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services sectors. Specialization and diversity metrics that combine industries in both sectors are calculated and related to subsequent job growth. The analysis finds robust and consistent...
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This paper summarizes the approach used to estimate monetary poverty for Pakistan in 2019-20 at the district level. The … instead of a census as the target data offers additional information for modeling poverty, but it also comes at the expense of … noise due to sampling. Monetary poverty rates are estimated for 126 districts in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and …
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quantities, while the nonfood component is derived indirectly as a ratio among subnational poverty lines. The paper extends the …
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