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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...
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Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income …
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inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution …
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This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form … their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective … inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality. However, a model that links demand for redistribution to subjective …
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This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … than in 2006 in transition countries. Support for redistribution toward specific groups is highest for the disabled and the … state group of transition countries. Regarding redistribution to specific groups, self-interest appears to be an important …
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Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware … OECD, which exhibits much lower income disparities, mainly as a result of effective policies of fiscal redistribution. In …
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The actual distribution of world income across countries is extremely unequal, much higher than the within country … terms of changes in standard inequality measures, it is of some importance for the lowest decile of the world's income … with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …
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devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …
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This paper examines growth spillovers between emerging markets and advanced economies. The empirical results, based on a two-bloc setup and cover 1991 to 2015, are twofold. First, the paper shows that the size of the spillovers running from emerging markets to advanced economies is about a fifth...
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How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, this paper introduces supply chain linkages into a workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with...
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