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This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys …, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by … direct measurement of net worth, rescaling of reported wealth to balance sheet totals, and capitalization of income flows. We …
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education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …
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We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth … observed individual heterogeneity. Overall, we find that the pension scheme smooths wealth dependence between generations in … the wealth portfolio. Complementary policy interventions, particularly for the poor across generations, would be needed to …
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and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … average household wealth indicators, there is a strong suggestion of increasing group inequalities between 1997 and 2017 …, the differences in average wealth between groups, if perceived, may feed grievances. They should be better understood so …
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individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …
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connections to convert public property into private wealth. The large propertied class of Central Europe is well formed, and …
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This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …
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This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The top income shares data are of high quality and cover about a century for some countries and thus provide an interesting opportunity to study slow development processes. The...
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This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April 2020 growth forecasts. The analysis shows that the pandemic will have dramatic consequences, eroding many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction....
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It is widely accepted that the distribution of power between ethnic groups within a country plays a key role in major social, political, and economic outcomes. Researchers working on the topic have various measures of ethnic dominance and exclusion, and other closely related aspects such as...
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