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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 …
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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 …
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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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Inequality in China : An Overview
Knight, John B. - 2017
This paper provides an overview of research on income inequality in China over the period of economic reform. It presents the results of two main sources of evidence on income inequality and, assisted by various decompositions, explains the reasons income inequality has increased rapidly and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974255
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Approximating Income Distribution Dynamics Using Aggregate Data
Kraay, Aart - 2017
moments of the income distribution available in the World Wealth and Income Database and the World Bank's PovcalNet database …
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Inequality of Access to Opportunities and Socioeconomic Mobility : Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey
Cojocaru, Alexandru - 2019
Expectations of future socioeconomic mobility are an important determinant of cur- rent policy preferences. But how may these expectations be formed? Using Life in Transition survey data for a large set of transition economies and several Western European countries, this paper examines the link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892746
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Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2019
The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement at a specific point in time. Using repeated cross-section surveys for five European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894829
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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is : Geographic Targeting of World Bank Projects to the Bottom 40 Percent
Öhler, Hannes - 2017
The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality … countries with the geographical distribution of the bottom 40. Applying this methodology to World Bank funding for projects … the bottom 40 and World Bank funding, and, in almost half of these, the correlation is above 0.5. Slightly more than a …
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