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Inequality of Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. This paper evaluates inequality of opportunity and the different sources of unequal...

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Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment : China Versus the Rest of the World

Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Disparities During China's Economic Reform

Dollar, David - 2016

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …. The inability to sell or mortgage rural land has further reduced opportunities. China has a uniquely decentralized fiscal …

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Household Expenditure and Poverty Measures in 60 Minutes : A New Approach with Results from Mogadishu

Pape, Utz Johann - 2018

In fragile states and areas beset by insecurity and conflict, the time available for a face-to-face interview is typically limited. That prevents administering the lengthy household consumption expenditure surveys used for measuring poverty. This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased...

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Approximating Income Distribution Dynamics Using Aggregate Data

Kraay, Aart - 2017

This paper proposes a methodology to approximate individual income distribution dynamics using only time series data on aggregate moments of the income distribution. Under the assumption that individual incomes follow a lognormal autoregressive process, this paper shows that the evolution over...

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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...

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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...

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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, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...

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The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in Zambia

de la Fuente, Alejandro - 2017

This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy -- and its individual elements -- in Zambia. Zambia's 2015 fiscal policy reduces inequality; the largest reduction is created by in-kind public service expenditures on education. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three...

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How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty?

Lakner, Christoph - 2019

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in international development and agreed upon in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 10. Using data from 164 countries comprising 97 percent of the world's...

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