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Onder, Harun - 2017

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly come under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

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Pathways to the Middle Class in Turkey : How Have Reducing Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity Helped?

Azevedo, João Pedro - 2017

Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have fallen considerably since 2003. Between 2002 and 2011, extreme poverty fell from 13 percent to 5 percent, while moderate poverty halved from 44 percent to 22 percent...

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An Evaluative Look Behind the Curtain : World Bank Group Staff's Early Experience with the Shared Prosperity Goal

Smets, Lodewijk - 2018

In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as fostering the growth in the income of the poorest 40 percent of the population in each...

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Is it What You Inherited or What You Learnt? Intergenerational Linkage and Interpersonal Inequality in Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie - 2017

include an individualized measure of consumption, this paper studies the role played by land inheritance, other bequests and … activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and occupation of parents (especially the mother) and their choices … about children's schooling are more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in …

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The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages

Do, Quy-Toan - 2016

The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relatives - has been a basic building block of many societies in different parts of the world. This paper argues that the practice of consanguinity is closely related to the practice of dowry, and that...

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Measuring the Middle Class in Kazakhstan : A Subjective Approach

Pittau, M. Grazia - 2018

This paper proposes a model-based approach to estimate income boundaries for identifying the middle class in Kazakhstan over 2003-15. The approach exploits the subjective evaluation of Kazakhstan households about their social status, relating self-declared social class membership to income....

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Welfare Dynamics with Synthetic Panels : The Case of the Arab World in Transition

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2018

This paper studies welfare dynamics, especially changes associated with middle-class status in countries in the Middle East and North Africa, before and after the Arab Spring transitions, using objective and subjective welfare measures. Absent panel data, the analysis employs state-of-the-art...

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Where They Live : District-Level Measures of Poverty, Average Consumption, and the Middle Class in Central Asia

Seitz, William Hutchins - 2019

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the uneven spread of prosperity left many communities struggling to catch up. To support lagging regions within countries, each of the region's five national governments has made...

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Mobility and Pathways to the Middle Class in Nepal

Tiwari, Sailesh - 2017

This paper introduces a variety of concepts and methods to examine living standards improvements in Nepal in a dynamic perspective. Using data from three rounds of Nepal Living Standards Surveys conducted in the past two decades, together with data from a nationally representative survey that...

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No Condition is Permanent : Middle Class in Nigeria in the Last Decade

Corral Rodas, Paul Andres - 2017

The economic debate on existence and definition of the middle class has become particularly lively in many developing countries. Despite this growing interest, the identification of the middle class group in these countries remains quite challenging. Building on a recently developed framework to...

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