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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in Transition Economies

Milanovic, Branko - 2016

What happens to poverty and income inequality during the early period of transition to a market economy? Poverty is on … reforms. In examining what happens to poverty and income inequality during the early period of transition to a market economy … assistance is needed because many universally or enterprise-provided benefits have been terminated, poverty has increased, and …

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Poverty, inequality, and social policy in transition economies

Milanovic, Branko - 1995

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Does Liberte=Egalite? A Survey of the Empirical Links between Democracy and Inequality

Gradstein, Mark - 2016

.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to study the … effects of inequality and poverty in the world. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research …

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After Piketty : The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

Berry, Daina Ramey (contributor); … - 2017 - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the...

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Global Income Distribution : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession

Lakner, Christoph; Milanovic, Branko - 2014

The paper presents a newly compiled and improved database of national household surveys between 1988 and 2008. In 2008, the global Gini index is around 70.5 percent having declined by approximately 2 Gini points over this twenty year period. When it is adjusted for the likely under-reporting of...

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Pre-industrial Inequality

Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes as unequal as they are today? This article infers inequality across individuals within each of the 28 pre-industrial societies, for which data were available, using what are known as social tables. It...

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Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Surveys

Milanovic, Branko - 2005

New data derived directly from household surveys are used to examine the effects of globalization on income distribution in poor and rich countries. The article looks at the impact of openness and of direct foreign investment on relative income shares across the entire income distribution. It...

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Global Inequality of Opportunity : How Much of Our Income Is Determined By Where We Live?

Milanovic, Branko - 2014

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics over which they have (almost) no control: country of residence and income distribution within that country. Assume further that there is no migration. We show that more than one-half of variability in income of world...

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Global Inequality : From Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants

Milanovic, Branko - 2012

acknowledging that migration is probably the most powerful tool for reducing global poverty and inequality. …

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Global Inequality and the Global Inequality Extraction Ratio : The Story of the Past Two Centuries

Milanovic, Branko - 2012

Using social tables, the author makes an estimate of global inequality (inequality among world citizens) in the early 19th century. The analysis shows that the level and composition of global inequality have changed over the past two centuries. The level has increased, reaching a high plateau...

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