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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Disparities During China's Economic Reform

Dollar, David - 2016

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …. The inability to sell or mortgage rural land has further reduced opportunities. China has a uniquely decentralized fiscal …

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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia

Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017

especially in populous countries, counteracted by catch-up growth in average incomes, particularly in China. Interpersonal …

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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...

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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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Uncertainty in Ex-Ante Poverty and Income Distribution : Insights from Output Growth and Natural Resource Country Typologies

Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019

This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...

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Nonrenewable Resources, Income Inequality and Per Capita GDP : An Empirical Analysis

Scognamillo, Antonio - 2017

This analysis examines the relationship between nonrenewable resource dependence, economic growth and income inequality. It uses a two-equation system in which the Gini index and GDP per capita are the dependent variables and the stock of nonrenewable resources as a share of national wealth --...

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Weak Instruments in Growth Regressions : Implications for Recent Cross-Country Evidence on Inequality and Growth

Kraay, Aart - 2017

This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four studies report strongly significant negative effects, using the popular system generalized method of moments estimator that is frequently used in cross-country growth empirics. This...

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Which Inequality Matters? Growth Evidence Based on Small Area Welfare Estimates in Uganda

Schipper, Youdi - 2017

Existing empirical studies on the relation between inequality and growth have been criticized for their focus on income inequality and their use of cross-country data sets. Schipper and Hoogeveen use two sets of small area welfare estimates-often referred to as poverty maps-to estimate a model...

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Effects of Income Inequality on Aggregate Output

Brueckner, Markus - 2017

This paper estimates the effect of income inequality on real gross domestic product per capita using a panel of 104 countries during the period 1970?2010. The empirical analysis addresses endogeneity issues by using instrumental variables estimation and controlling for country and time fixed...

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Gender Inequality and Growth : The Case of Rich vs. Poor Countries

Amin, Mohammad - 2017

This paper uses cross-section data for 107 countries to explore the relationship between gender inequality and economic growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender inequality in education, which has been the focus of...

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