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standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …This paper contributes to the literature by reviewing levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s … the complexity of the underlying drivers of inequality changes. While the primary focus is on examining trends based on …
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education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in …
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and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using …This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring … census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible intersecting inequalities, measuring between-group inequality …
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individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences …
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In this review, I provide an overview of the literature investigating the social psychology of economic inequality …, focusing on individuals' understandings, perceptions, and reactions to inequality. I begin by describing different ways of … measuring perceptions of inequality, and conclude that absolute measures-which ask respondents to estimate inequality in more …
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This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around …
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period of economic liberalization. -- inequality ; redistribution ; structural adjustment ; political parties ; populism … helped to 'repoliticize' inequality and return redistributive policies to a central place on the political agenda in the … inequality, therefore, differ significantly from those of Latin America's ISI era, as well as those that prevailed during the …
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An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …
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inequality determines redistribution. In contrast they suggest that ethnic inequality matters more than income inequality for …This paper investigates the relationship between inequality and redistributive taxation. It provides a review of … political economy argument according to which higher income inequality leads to more redistributive government policies. Extant …
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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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