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Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Household Survey Data, 1990-2005
Milanovic, Branko; Ersado, Lire - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
paper examines correlates of unprecedented increases in inequality registered by most of the economies. The analysis shows … (mostly consisting of privatization and higher fees) are responsible for the pro-inequality effect; small-scale privatization … spending as share of gross domestic income reduces inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141840
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A Curse of Comparison? Evidence on Reference Groups for Relative Income Concerns
Kuegler, Alice - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a reference point for new sample data from Venezuela....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133487
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The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"
Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141919
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Demand versus returns ? pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training
Macours, Karen; Premand, Patrick; Vakis, Renos - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
Interventions aimed at increasing the income generating capacity of the poor, such as vocational training, micro-finance or business grants, are widespread in the developing world. How to target such interventions is an open question. Many programs are self-targeted, but if perceived returns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633087
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Beyond the income effect : impacts of conditional cash transfer programs on private investments in human capital
Cruz, Marcio; Ziegelhofer, Zacharias - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
In the past decade, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become an important component of social policy in … investigates the impact of a CCT program on private household expenditure decisions in nutrition, health and education which are … seen as principal contributors to child human capital. First, household expenditure behavior under a CCT program is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829827
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Aid is good for the poor
Hirano, Yumeka; Otsubo, Shigeru - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884962
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Should income inequality be reduced and who should benefit ? redistributive preferences in Europe and Central Asia
Cojocaru, Alexandru; Diagne, Mame Fatou - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960249
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Measuring inequality from top to bottom
Bazan, Diaz; Valeria, Tania - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252713
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Is there persistence in the growth of manufactured exports? Evidence from newly industrializing countries
Mody, Ashoka; Yilmaz, Kamil; DEC - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1994
Price and income elasticities estimated from a country's export demand function are used both to predict and to prescribe effective export strategies. But the focus on elasticities has led to the neglect of an important empirical regularity: a strong persistencein the growth rate of a country's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079483
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Inequality, the price of nontradables, and the real exchange rate : theory and cross-country evidence
Min, Hong-Ghi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002
The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … negative relationship between inequality and real exchange rates does not imply that policies aimed at dramatic redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079501