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Poverty, inequality, and agriculture in the EU
Azevedo, João Pedro; Brink, Rogerius Johannes Eugenius … - 2018
Boosting convergence and shared prosperity in the European Union achieved renewed urgency after the global financial crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper sheds light on the relationship between poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002270
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Global inequality : from class to location, from proletarians to migrants
Milanović, Branko - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425855
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Putting your money where your mouth is : geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent
Öhler, Hannes; Negre, Mario; Smets, Lodewijk; Massari, … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781369
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Borrowing to keep up (with the joneses) : inequality, debt, and conspicuous consumption
Banuri, Sheheryar; Nguyen, Ha - 2020
The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment … that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous … finance exacerbates inequality. The results point to a vicious cycle of inequality and costly borrowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297516
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How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty?
Lakner, Christoph; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Negre, Mario; … - 2019
to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051829
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Poverty convergence in a time of stagnation : a municipal-level perspective from Mexico (1992–2014)
López-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; … - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121224
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The Doha round, poverty, and regional inequality in Brazil
Ferreira Filho, Joaquim Bento de Souza; Horridge, Mark - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003134424
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Hunting for leopards : long run country income dynamics in Africa
Arbache, Jorge Saba (contributor); Page, John M. (contributor) - 2008
"This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. They analyze changes in cross-country income structure and convergence, and look for evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758844
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Distribution of income and income tax burden in Bulgaria
Bogetić, Željko; Hassan, Fareed M. A. - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000906635