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Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2005

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a...

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Accounting for Mexican Income Inequality During the 1990s

De Hoyos Navarro, Rafael E. - 2016

The author implements several inequality decomposition methods to measure the extent to which total household income disparities can be attributable to sectoral asymmetries and differences in skill endowments. The results show that at least half of total household inequality in Mexico is...

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Measuring the Pro-Poorness of Income Growth within an Elasticity Framework

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2016

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact...

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The Inequality Possibility Frontier : Extensions and New Applications

Milanović, Branko - 2017

This paper extends the Inequality Possibility Frontier approach in two methodological directions. It allows the social minimum to increase with the average income of a society, and it derives all the Inequality Possibility Frontier statistics for two other inequality measures besides the Gini....

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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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Effects of Income Inequality on Aggregate Output

Brückner, 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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Hunting for Leopards : Long Run Country Income Dynamics in Africa

Arbache, Jorge Saba - 2016

This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. They analyze changes in cross-country income structure and convergence, and look for evidence of...

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Why South Africa is Cheap for the Rich and Expensive for the Poor : Reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson Effect

Dadam, Vincent - 2019

This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional … consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade …, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional …

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The World Bank's Classification of Countries by Income

Fantom, Neil James - 2017

The World Bank has used an income classification to group countries for analytical purposes for many years. Since the present income classification was first introduced 25 years ago there has been significant change in the global economic landscape. As real incomes have risen, the number of...

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Variance and Skewness in Density Predictions : A World GDP Growth Forecast Assessment

Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019

variable -- for example, gross domestic product growth, inflation, population growth, poverty headcount, among others …

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