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procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census …Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or … (spatial) inequality between villages and blocks and to derive (local) inequality within these spatial units. We find that the …
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zero and household real consumption reducing in all areas of the country. Meanwhile, inequality stagnated in the period … inequality for Mozambique and their trends over the last 25 years. Using real per capita consumption as the main welfare … aggregate, we look at various indicators of inequality, including the consumption distribution, percentiles and percentile …
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different inequality measures yield varying results. Despite having higher absolute inequality, country clusters with extremely … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …-quality institutions generally do not differ much in terms of inequality outcomes. …
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comparing it to the latest manufacturing enterprise survey as well as the latest firm census. The merged manufacturing database …
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domestic product, the latest enterprise census, and satellite imagery. Results indicate that the manufacturing sector grows at …
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
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Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in...
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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....
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period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
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