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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262015

Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262079

The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262026

A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty … into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and residual components are described. In parametric approaches the dynamics … measures and expectations about their impacts on earnings inequality and poverty reductions. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261971

Inequalities and Their Measurement

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper is a review of the recent advances in the measurement of inequality. Inequality can have several dimensions. Economists are mostly concerned with the income and consumption dimensions of inequality. Several inequality indices including the most widely used index of inequality namely...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261969

Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262022

Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2007

commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268174

The relationship between income inequality, poverty, and globalization

Heshmati, Almas - 2005

also used in a regression analysis to study the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalization …. The results show evidence of a weak and negative relationship between globalization and income inequality and poverty …. – globalization ; income inequality ; poverty ; indices ; principal component …

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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262053

Measurement of a multidimentional index of globalization and its impact on income inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2003

In this paper we present two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate which countries have become most globalized and show how globalization has developed over time....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278997