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city’s sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …
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approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …
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insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article specifies government.s stated target of halving...
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land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …
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the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …
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society. Comparative analysis reveals that certain endowments exist in societies that experience a ‘persistence of inequality …-tropical products’ to contribute to the rise and persistence of an elite, and consequently inequality. The focus shifts to the …
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growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears …
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This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule. Just how uneq
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the …
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