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The Inequality Possibility Frontier : Extensions and New Applications
Milanovic, Branko - 2017
This paper extends the Inequality Possibility Frontier approach in two methodological directions. It allows the social minimum to increase with the average income of a society, and it derives all the Inequality Possibility Frontier statistics for two other inequality measures besides the Gini....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974394
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Accounting for Mexican Income Inequality During the 1990s
De Hoyos Navarro, Rafael E. - 2016
The author implements several inequality decomposition methods to measure the extent to which total household income disparities can be attributable to sectoral asymmetries and differences in skill endowments. The results show that at least half of total household inequality in Mexico is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747751
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Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2005
We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061963
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Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements : The Case of Indonesia
Cali, Massimiliano - 2019
ante estimates of the impacts of two key preferential trade agreements currently negotiated by Indonesia, the largest … Indonesia may negotiate in the future. To that end it, combines a dynamic, multi-country computable general equilibrium model … the preferential trade agreements considered, the European Union?Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859523
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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
Bah, Adama - 2018
Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927010
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Early-Life Access to a Basic Health Care Program and Adult Outcomes in Indonesia
Ahsan, Md Nazmul - 2020
the long-run impact of the Village Midwife Program in Indonesia. It utilizes the roll-out-variation of the program and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834264
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Does Democratization Promote Competition? : Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2020
Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had extensive business interests. Firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843450
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How Important are Spillovers from Major Emerging Markets?
Huidrom, Raju - 2017
The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World
Rogger, Daniel - 2017
, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957069
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Can Minimum Wages Close the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Indonesia
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2018
Using manufacturing plant-level census data, this paper demonstrates that minimum wage increases in Indonesia reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937148