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The welfare effects of financial inclusion in Ghana : an exploration based on a multidimensional measure of financial inclusion
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael - 2021
, indicating the potential of financial inclusion for reducing income inequality. Thus, policies that aim to deepen the extent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650895
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When unstable, growth is less pro-poor
Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachais, Catherine - 2010
Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …. -- income instability ; poverty ; inequality ; economic growth ; growth elasticity of poverty ; poverty trap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662270
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - 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 determine inequality change, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249771
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Poverty and ethnicity among black South Africans
Gradín, Carlos - 2014
This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with respect to the Sotho/Tswana. We also show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404583
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Costly posturing : relative status, ceremonies and early child development in China
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2012
health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita income growth. We … as to why the nutritional status of the poor tends to be stagnant amid rapid income growth in developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581430
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The changing nature of work and earnings inequality in China
Xing, Chunbing - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
This paper examines the evolution of China's industrial and occupational structure in the last two decades and its impact on wage inequality. We find that non-routine cognitive and interpersonal tasks have increased, while routine cognitive tasks first increased and then declined. Occupation...
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Ordinal multidimensional inequality
Sonne-Schmidt, Christoffer; Tarp, Finn; Østerdal, Lars … - 2013
This paper proposes a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal multidimensional categorical data. In our model, one population is more unequal than another when they have common arithmetic median outcomes and the first can be obtained from the second by correlation-increasing switches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189035
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Variable populations and the measurement of poverty and inequality : a selective overview
Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2012
The present paper is a selective overview, very considerably based on work in which the author himself has been involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of differing size. The paper begins with certain problems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539894
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Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth
Negre, Mario - 2010
to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is … and concludes with an empirical illustration for the case of Honduras. -- pro-poor ; growth ; income ; inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661202
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COVID-19 and global poverty : are LDCs being left behind?
Valensisi, Giovanni - 2020
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April 2020 growth forecasts. The analysis shows that the pandemic will have dramatic consequences, eroding many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228066