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The Distributional Impacts of Cigarette Taxation in Bangladesh

Del Carmen Hasbun, Giselle Eugenia - 2018

across consumption deciles. This shows that an increase in the price of cigarettes in Bangladesh has small consumption …

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Assessing Ex Ante the Poverty and Distributional Impact of the Global Crisis in a Developing Country : A Micro-Simulation Approach with Application to Bangladesh

Habib, Bilal - 2017

-crisis household data. The approach is then applied to Bangladesh to assess the potential impact of the slowdown on poverty and income … distribution across different groups and regions. A validation exercise using past data from Bangladesh finds that the model … monitoring tools and policies in Bangladesh, and also illustrate the kind of analysis that is possible in other developing …

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Long-Term Growth Scenarios for Bangladesh

Sinha, Rishabh - 2017

Bangladesh has achieved robust economic growth over the past 10 years, with real GDP growing by more than 6 percent on … forward. A simple growth model calibrated to the Bangladesh economy is used to analyze various growth scenarios. The main …

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Does Energy Efficiency Promoteeconomic Growth? : Evidence from a Multi-Country and Multi-Sector Panel Data Set

Rajbhandari, Ashish - 2017

This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to...

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The Global Trade Slowdown : Cyclical or Structural?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses an empirical strategy based on an error correction model to assess whether the global trade slowdown is structural or cyclical. An estimate of the relationship between trade and...

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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...

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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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