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Non-Farm Diversification, Poverty, Economic Mobility and Income Inequality : a Case Study in Village India
Lanjouw, Peter F. (contributor); Murgai, Rinku (contributor) - 2017
This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the growing importance, and influence, of the non-farm sector in the rural economy between the early 1980s and late 2000s. The suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and...
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Distributional Effects of Tobacco Taxation : A Comparative Analysis
Fuchs, Alan - 2019
Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of the perception that poorer households are affected disproportionally more than richer households. This study compares the simulated distributional effects of tobacco tax increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888983
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The Heterogeneous Growth Effects of the Business Environment : Firm-Level Evidence for a Global Sample of Cities
Reyes, Jose Daniel - 2017
business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …
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Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Cities
Lerner, Josh - 2017
Since the 2008-09 global financial crises, interest among policy makers in promoting innovative, ventures has exploded. The emerging great hubs of entrepreneurial activity, like Bangalore, Dubai, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Tel Aviv, bear the unmistakable stamp of the public sector....
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SME Contributions to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth in the Arab World
Nasr, Sahar - 2017
employment, promoting inclusive growth, and improving competitiveness. In the short run, weakened macroeconomic fundamentals in … policies across sectors to create productive employment and promote economic growth. Supporting innovation and enhancing access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973828
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Small vs. Young Firms Across the World : Contribution to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2016
This paper investigates the contribution of small firms to employment, job creation, and growth in developing countries …. While small firms (<20 employees) have the smallest share of aggregate employment, the SME sector's (<100 employees … and employment growth, even after controlling for firm age. Large firms, however, have higher productivity growth …
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Constraints to Growth and Job Creation in Low-Income Commonwealth of Independent States Countries
Verme, Paolo - 2016
not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as jobless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748041
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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia
Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017
Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...
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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty : A Robust Relationship?
Marrero, Gustavo A. - 2018
An extensive literature on poverty traps suggests that high levels of poverty deter growth. However, a seemingly basic implication of the underlying theoretical models, namely that countries suffering from higher levels of poverty should grow less rapidly, has remained untested. A parallel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911547
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Inequality is Bad for Growth of the Poor (But Not for that of the Rich)
van der Weide, Roy - 2018
The paper assesses the impact of overall inequality, as well as inequality among the poor and among the rich, on the growth rates along various percentiles of the income distribution. The analysis uses micro-census data from U.S. states covering the period from 1960 to 2010. The paper finds...
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