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The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...
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This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban …
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Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …
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This paper uses new survey data to measure the government's capacity to deliver goods and services in a manner that includes: high coverage of the population; equal access; and high quality of service delivery. The paper finds variation in these indicators across and within Indian states....
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In the past decade, Turkey has experienced a notable level of poverty reduction at all levels (extreme poor, poor, and … vulnerable). The steady decline in poverty was also resilient to the decline in gross domestic product per capita growth during … the crisis. However, although poverty convergence was strong before the financial crisis, there was an absence of regional …
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The paper presents the policymakers? perspective on the reforms undertaken to manage states? debt and ensure solvency. While the sustained high growth rates of the Indian economy played a part in alleviating the interest burden on debt and ensuring that the debt does not grow in an explosive...
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This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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This paper proposes a methodology to approximate individual income distribution dynamics using only time series data on aggregate moments of the income distribution. Under the assumption that individual incomes follow a lognormal autoregressive process, this paper shows that the evolution over...
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standards over time and space, these results suggest that estimates of the level, location, and change in poverty and inequality …
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. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three ways: (1) there is a relatively low level of targeted, direct … households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel … Transfer program's coverage and benefit levels, the impact of fiscal policy on poverty would likely be muted. In 2015, Zambia …
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