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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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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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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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The effects of taxation on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa

Ouedraogo, Idrissa Mohamed; Dianda, Issa; Ouedraogo, … - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of taxation on income inequality in an unbalanced panel of 45 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980-2018. We use instrumentalvariable two-stage least squares and instrumental-variable quantile regression estimates. We find that taxation widens...

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Elite incomes around the world: Command over tradables, non-tradables, and people

Segal, Paul; Moatsos, Michail - 2022

This paper analyses elite incomes around the world, and how international comparisons of elite incomes vary depending on the exchange rate and income concept used. It is well known that between-country income inequality is higher using market exchange rates than purchasing power parity (PPP)...

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Top incomes in China: Data collection and the impact on income inequality

Li, Qinghai; Li, Shi; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018

With the data on the top incomes collected from different sources, we combine the samples of the top incomes with a household survey to investigate changes in the income distribution with and without the top incomes. The Gini coefficient of income inequality using household survey data is 0.464...

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The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in six African countries

Gasior, Katrin; Leventi, Chrysa; Noble, Michael; … - 2018

inequality and poverty. The results are based on newly developed microsimulation models for Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, South …

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