governance and economic growth at the provincial level in China during the reform era. I find a significant and positive effect … of economic growth on subsequent quality of governance, largely driven by growth in the secondary sector, but no … significant effect of quality of governance on economic growth. These findings suggest that improvements in formal governance have …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

private foundations as a means for corporate control by comparing the taxation of private foundations and of high …

differences in poverty among the population over age sixty-five and the current debate on the future of the Social Security system. …

1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …