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This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new analysis tools and data. The paper discusses inference and interpretation in a machine learning framework. The results suggest that production gradually favors conserving the...
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What is the pathway to development in a world with less international integration? This paper answers this question within a model that emphasizes the role of demand-side constraints on national development, which is identified with sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is...
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This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … for the process of reduction in inequality, but do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence using …
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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the...
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. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … various effects. In total, two opposing effects, one on mean and one on inequality, compensate each other in terms of the … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …
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This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...
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speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …
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To comprehend how development really happens, it is necessary to understand the evolution of its drivers and their relationship with individuals' income. This paper analyzes the expansion of access to education and basic services in Latin America and its association with the evolution of incomes...
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Although household well-being is anchored in long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. This paper develops a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization that...
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