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, causing returns differences between the regions to persist. To reduce regional inequality in welfare in Bangladesh, the …
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(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … inclusion of remittances. The paper also finds that both types of remittances increase income inequality in Ghana. For …
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Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to obtain a credible measure of resilience. This difficulty is because the data required to measure resilience, which involves observing household outcomes over time after every...
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What causes developing countries to receive different levels of international remittances? This paper addresses this question by using new data on such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates to examine the determinants of remittances. The paper...
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This paper examines the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing world. To analyze the country-level impact of remittances, the paper estimates an econometric model based on a new data set of 115 developing countries. Results suggest that...
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to which total income inequality is due to differential effort, as opposed to differential circumstances. This pair of …
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The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data … inequality is computed as a lower bound estimator of inequality of opportunity. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are … the sample of ever-married women aged 30-49 in Turkey, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26 percent (31 …
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Development aid and policy discussions often assume that poorer countries have less internal capacity for redistribution in favor of their poorest citizens. The assumption is tested using data for 90 developing countries. The capacity for redistribution is measured by the marginal tax rate on...
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dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … mild, but exhibit a strong regional pattern. Inequality is likely to fall in regions such as Latin America, which are … characterized by high initial inequality, and rise in regions like South Asia, characterized by low initial inequality. …
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Income inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and … most important factors explaining overall inequality are differential returns to schooling and sector of employment. A … carried out during the last 25 years. The authors argue that rising income inequality can be part of a normal process of …
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