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Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
Forster, Michael; Jesuit, David; Smeeding, Timothy - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031786
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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty, and Globalization
Heshmati, Almas - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033197
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Trade Liberalization and the Self-employed in Mexico
Popli, Gurleen K. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the self-employed workers in Mexico over the … and investment liberalization. For the first decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among the self …-employed increased; as the economy stabilized and the country saw economic growth inequality started to go down, but poverty kept …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033277
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Social service delivery and access to financial innovation: The impact of Oportunidades. electronic payment system in Mexico
Masino, Serena; Nino-Zarazua, Miguel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico.s Oportunidades programme. The switch from cash payments to electronic payments delivered via a bank account is found to have implicati
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766020
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
poverty reducti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854458
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
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 forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John; Shimeles, Abebe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854479
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Redistribution without Structural Change in Ecuador: Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
Ponce, Juan; Vos, Rob - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a .new leftist. government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854507
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The economics of malaria in Africa
Berthelemy, Jean-Claude; Thuilliez, Josselin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854525
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On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices
Subramanian, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854528