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Development success : historical accounts from more advanced countries
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2012
Based on eleven themes, this paper synthesizes in-depth case studies that present historical accounts on the development 'success' for a number of more economically advanced countries. The coverage includes Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden), non-Nordic advanced countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581425
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Regulatory reform for closing Africa's competitiveness gap
Kessides, Ioannis Nicolaos - 2014
Over the past decade, Africa has been experiencing an economic resurgence. Yet, the continent is facing several difficult challenges and many economies of the region continue to be among the least competitive in the world. Africa's competitiveness is adversely affected by: (i) poor regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358801
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Inequality of opportunity in educational achievements : cross-country and intertemporal comparisons
Luongo, Patrizia - 2015
Assessment PISA, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012 are exploited to perform a cross-country and intertemporal comparison of fairness in … education. The cross-country comparison shows that none of the countries outperform in both components of fairness, whereas the … intertemporal comparison shows that few countries have moved towards a greater degree of equality of opportunity all the while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511256
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Reference groups and the poverty line : an axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration
Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - 2015
A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462538
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Urban settlement : data, measures, and trends
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Fink, Guenther; … - 2010
This paper examines data on urbanization. We review the most commonly used data sources, and highlight the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. We show that differences in the measurement of urban populations across countries and over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660857
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Country role models : synthesis of Ireland, Japan and Switzerland
Findlay, Ronald - 2010
This paper provides a synthesis of the three papers on the non-Nordic developed economies, Ireland, Japan and Switzerland along the following themes: role of the state, openness, education and human capital, and macroeconomic stability. It then draws lessons for developing countries of today. --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662170
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Redistribution around the world : causes and consequences
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2016
This paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature. In particular, we use the latest version of the UNU-WIDER' Income Inequality Database to have the best available estimates of both pre- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568157
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Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries : the case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Checchi, Daniele; Cupák, Andrej; Munzi, Teresa; … - 2018
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data. After discussing the main challenges when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938214
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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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Natural disasters and economic inequality : insights from wildfires across the globe
Paudel, Jayash - 2023
Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across the globe. This article employs satellite data on real-time active fire locations to evaluate the short-term impact of forest fires on economic inequality around the world. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013548956