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of 18th century French incomes and inequality …
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examines correlates of unprecedented increases in inequality registered by most of these economies. We find that, after … infrastructure reform (mostly consisting of privatization and higher fees) are responsible for this pro-inequality effect while small … evidence that higher government spending as share of GDI reduces inequality …
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Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and social class within that country. Assume further that there is no migration. We show that 90 percent of variability in people's global income position (percentile in world income...
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inequality may be very different from those in true inequality, that is, that measured using household-specific CPIs. The authors … the inflation faced by the poorest consumers. As a result of this bias, the observed increases in nominal inequality … generally exceed the actual changes in real inequality. These results are robust to correcting for quality change bias in the …
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is found to be very low in Mexico, suggesting that the high level of inequality found in the cross-section will persist …
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inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household … inequality. This yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality …
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alleviation at the national level, while Cameroon's domestic trade liberalization has adverse poverty and inequality impacts …
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The authors use a computable general equilibrium model to estimate the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) for taxes on domestic goods, exports, imports, capital, and labor in 38 African countries. The resulting MCF estimates provide directions for tax reform in Africa. The authors investigate...
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Based on their objective economic situation and comparing with their peers, individuals form perceptions of their economic position in a society. Data from the three waves of the Life in Transition surveys of European countries show that these perceptions systematically deviate from the rankings...
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has been robust in recent decades, the growth elasticity of poverty has remained low. This suggests that inequality has … dampened the pro-poor effects of growth. However, when using standard inequality measures, there is only scattered evidence of … high and growing inequality in Africa outside the extremely unequal southern cone. This paper argues that inequality …
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