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Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

Sahn, David E.; Stifel, David C. - 2004

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Ungrouping income distributions: Synthesising samples for inequality and poverty analysis

Shorrocks, Anthony; Wan, Guanghua - 2008

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing individual income observations to be reconstructed from any feasible grouping pattern. In contrast to earlier methods, our procedure ensures that the characteristics of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284587

Long-run changes in the concentration of wealth: An overview of recent findings

Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006

The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284643

Household financial assets in the process of development

Honohan, Patrick - 2006

Systematic information on household financial asset holdings in developing countries is very sparse; we review some available data and current policy debates. Although financial asset holdings by households are highly concentrated, deeper financial systems are correlated with improved income...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284833

Inequality and Welfare Evaluation of Heterogeneous Income Distributions

Shorrocks, Anthony - 2004

This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income distributions. Two basic criteria - the 'equity preference' condition and the 'compensation principle' - are shown to be fundamentally incompatible. The paper favours the latter,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323502

Some Simple Analytics of Poverty Redress through Direct Income Transfers and Wage Employment Programmes: A Review and Commentary

Subramanian, S. - 2004

This paper is a review and commentary, from both ethical and informational perspectives, of some known results in optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323506

The Finnish developmental state and its growth regime

Jäntti, Markus; Vartiainen, Juhana - 2009

This paper reviews Finland's growth strategy in the postwar decades. Finland was able to initiate an impressive …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273520

Economic development strategy, openness and rural poverty: A framework and China's experiences

Lin, Justin Yifu; Liu, Peilin - 2006

This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country’s long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: (i) the comparative advantage-defying (CAD) strategy, which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284522

Prospects for pro-poor growth in Africa

Bigsten, Arne; Shimeles, Abebe - 2004

This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to … some African countries and calculate pro-poor growth indices. Different growth patterns are simulated for Ethiopia, Uganda …, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution …

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Household wealth in Latin America

Torche, Florencia; Spilerman, Seymour - 2006

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of wealth ownership and wealth inequality in Latin American countries, using diverse published sources and primary data analysis for 16 nations. We produce estimates of the distribution of home ownership, land, and financial assets, and find very high...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284670