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The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. However, drawing conclusions...
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Smart decisions about where to focus poverty alleviation projects depend on accurate projections of where the bulk of …, Peter Edward and Andy Sumner introduce new model of growth, inequality, and poverty that allows comparison of a wide range … of input assumptions. They find that it is plausible that $1.25 and $2 global poverty will reduce substantially by 2030 …
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The paper sets out two views of the facts about the effects of globalization on world poverty and inequality. The … bottom line: globalization is not the cause, but neither is it the solution to world poverty and inequality. The paper then …
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, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. Integration into the global economy in the 1990s brought increased … paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract …
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Increasing integration has made the great challenge of reducing poverty and advancing human development more achievable … why good global economic governance matters for reducing poverty and inequality in the world, and then develop several …
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growing poverty and inequality levels in Latin America—and circumstantial evidence supports the claim. But recent and rigorous … unemployment and in equality, and either reduces poverty or has no effect on it. Still, while privatization may be winning the …
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This paper develops a new combined-wealth measure by augmenting data on net worth from the Survey of Consumer Finances with estimates of defined benefit (DB) pension and expected Social Security wealth. We use this concept to explore retirement preparation among two groups of households in...
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Much of America's promise is predicated on economic mobility - the possibility that people can move up and down the economic ladder during their lifetimes. Mobility is of particular consequence when economic disparities are increasing. Using panel data and mobility concepts and measures adapted...
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Much of America's promise is predicated on economic mobility - the idea that people are not limited or defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobility - changes in individual families' income positions over time...
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Much of America's promise is predicated on the existence of economic mobilitythe idea that people are not limited or defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobilitychanges in individual families' real incomes...
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