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Inequality of Outcomes and Inequality of Opportunity in Tanzania
Hassine Belghith, Nadia - 2017
The paper investigates the structure and dynamics of consumption inequality and inequality of opportunity in Tanzania. The analysis covers the period 2001 to 2012. It reveals moderate and declining levels of consumption inequality at the national level, but increasing inequalities between...
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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility : Some International Comparisons
Brunori, Paolo - 2017
Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974717
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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth : A Cross-Country Analysis
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. This study uses two new metadata...
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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Lakner, Christoph - 2017
In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968216
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Does Child Sponsorship Pay Off in Adulthood? An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth
Wydick, Bruce - 2017
This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 is utilized that limited sponsorship...
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The Consumption, Income, and Wealth of the Poorest : Cross-Sectional Facts of Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa for Macroeconomists
de Magalhaes, Leandro - 2017
This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the poorest countries in the world ? Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda ? all located in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The first finding is that while income inequality is similar to that of...
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Measuring Ancient Inequality
Milanovic, Branko - 2016
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747537
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The Distributive Impact of Taxes and Expenditures in Colombia
Jairo, Nunez - 2020
Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … of the distributional impacts of taxes and expenditures in Colombia in 2017. It makes a methodological comparison with … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 …
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Fiscal Policy in Colombia : Tapping its Potential for a More Equitable Society
Moller, Lars Christian - 2017
Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware … Colombia, meanwhile, direct taxes, indirect taxes, and monetary transfers hardly dent the high Gini coefficient. To reduce … presents an illustrative reform package that would be sufficient for Colombia to reach levels of inequality similar to Chile or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975187
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Getting Real About Inequality : Evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
Goni, Edwin; Lopez, Humberto; Servén, Luis - 2015
, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060101