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It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …
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inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus …
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This paper assesses inequality of opportunity in educational achievement using the Human Opportunity Index methodology … inequality in most of the countries in the sample. Consistent with what has been documented previously in the literature, the … paper also finds a strong and stable correlation between inequality of opportunity and public spending on school education …
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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...
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This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …
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This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …
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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...
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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 …
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involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to include, among … infrastructure assets, and (2) income inequality declines with higher infrastructure quantity and quality. A variety of specification … quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure development can be highly effective …
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The median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by blunting incentives, reduce the country's growth rate. But...
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