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Long-Run Effects of Democracy on Income Inequality : Evidence from Repeated Cross-Sections
Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017
This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972307
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Party Age and Party Color : New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality
Keefer, Philip - 2017
This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central -- but still contested -- assumption of the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972412
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Trade and Civil Conflict : Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Calì, Massimiliano - 2017
This paper revisits and expands the evidence on the impact of trade shocks on intra-state conflict with a large sample of developing countries in the 1960-2010 period. The results suggest that increases in the prices of a country's exported commodities raise the country's risk of civil conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972438
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The"Resource Curse"In MENA? Political Transitions, Resource Wealth, Economic Shocks, and Conflict Risk
Ross, Michael L. - 2017
stability, and conflict risk; and third, to assess how prospective political transitions have implications for the World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975862
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How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty?
Lakner, Christoph - 2019
countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865509
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970655
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Infrastructure, Growth, and Inequality : An Overview
Calderón, César - 2017
Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure services to be essential for economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution. The theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972738
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Growth, Inequality, and Social Welfare : Cross-Country Evidence
Dollar, David - 2017
Social welfare functions that assign weights to individuals based on their income levels can be used to document the relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and developing countries over the past 40 years, most of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973293
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Global Inequality : From Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants
Milanovic, Branko - 2017
Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975731
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Life Satisfaction and Income Inequality
Verme, Paolo - 2017
such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens, the author tests the consistency of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976148