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Measuring the labour income share of developing countries : learning from social accounting matrices
Treeck, Katharina van - 2015
This paper is the first to address the challenges of measuring the labour income share of developing countries. The poor availability and reliability of national accounts data, and the fact that self-employed people, whose labour income is hard to capture, account for a major share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500617
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Construction productivity and global inequality
Paul, Saumik; Sen, Kunal - 2023
examines the implications of heterogeneity in construction productivity on cross-country income disparity. We estimate the 10 …:1 spread in construction productivity among 145 countries in 2005 as a factor of 61.7-fold. Based on a general equilibrium … construction productivity gap is eliminated. Sectoral characterization of the aggregate effect of a change in construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422405
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Behind the numbers : exploring caste inequities in entrepreneurial success
Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2024
, focusing on the informal sector. Our examination shows a significant productivity gap between firms owned by disadvantaged … castes and others, including Other Backward Classes and Forward Castes, across the productivity distribution. The results of … observables in explaining the caste gap in productivity. This implies that even with improvements in firm attributes for Scheduled …
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Inequality and productive structure : new evidence at the world level
Amarante, Verónica; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; Torres, Joaquín - 2023
This paper investigates the evolution of the productive structure around the world and the role it plays in the difference in inequality levels, using panel data for the period from 1995 to 2018. We approximate a country's productive structure through the Economic Complexity Index. Our results...
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Exclusive growth? : rapidly increasing top incomes amid low national growth in South Africa
Bassier, Ihsaan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2020
Despite South Africa's need for inclusive economic growth, we find that the income trajectories of the rich continue to diverge from the rest of the income distribution. We combine household survey data and tax data (which, unlike household survey data, includes accurate data for the very rich)...
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New data, new approaches and new evidence : a policy synthesis
Arndt, Channing - 2017
The Republic of South Africa faces the imperative of escaping economic stagnation. This paper seeks to synthesize results from a series of research efforts, including but not limited to the work conducted under the UNU-WIDER project on 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa', and...
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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Spatial and temporal multidimensional poverty in Nigeria
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2015
Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first-order dominance approach. It examines five welfare indicators:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411127
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2015
In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth was not all that mattered; external factors were...
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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics
Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022
What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century. This article critically reviews the recent empirical and theoretical literature on the complex interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality...
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