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The long-term evolution of income inequality and poverty in China

Luo, Chuliang; Li, Shi; Sicular, Terry - 2018

investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of … poverty decomposition. …

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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?

Apergis, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how … both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 … equality and poverty reduction. The interaction of human rights with official development assistance and trade flows shows that …

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Evaluating antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa: Better policies? Better politics?

Barrientos, Armando; Villa, Juan M. - 2013

The paper provides a comparative analysis of the incidence of evaluation methods in antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. The paper identifies two broad explanations for the incidence of evaluation in antipoverty transfer programmes in developing countries, one...

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The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India: Model-based simulation and case-study evidence

Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Peter - 2019

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

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Fiscal redistribution in Brazil: Dynamic microsimulation, 2003-15

Neri, Marcelo Cortes; de Siqueira, Rozane Bezerra; … - 2018

mean income. If one compares family grant poverty impacts with the second best targeted cash transfer programme, each …

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The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodriguez, David; Jara, H. Xavier; Dondo, Mariana; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax-benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the effect of government intervention on household...

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Income redistribution in Latin America: A microsimulation approach

Arancibia Romero, Cristina; Dondo, Mariana; Jara, H. Xavier - 2019

importance of tax-benefit instruments across countries and on the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. The …

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Changing income inequality and structural transformation: The case of Botswana 1921 - 2010

Hillbom, Ellen; Bolt, Jutta - 2015

In Sub-Saharan Africa we find some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Nevertheless, we generally know very little about the historical development of inequality. In this paper we look at how inequality developed in colonial and post-colonial Botswana. We show that income...

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Analysing income distribution changes: Anonymous versus panel income approaches

Duval-Hernández, Robert; Fields, Gary S.; Jakubson, … - 2015

We reconcile, both theoretically and empirically, changes in inequality with panel income changes over periods of economic growth and decline. We also explore what factors account for the trends of short-run inequality and of inequality in individual average earnings. Finally, we explore what...

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Taxation and inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America

Martorano, Bruno - 2016

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries, focusing on the recent experience of Latin America. Although the tax system was regressive in the 1990s, tax changes promoted equality in the first decade of the 2000s. In...

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