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The relationship between growth and poverty in forecasting framework: Pakistan's future in the year 2035

Zaman, Khalid; Khilji, Bashir Ahmad - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 468-491

Forecasting poverty in the future is mostly a matter of forecasting economic growth. The objective of the study is to … examine the inter-temporal link between growth and poverty in Pakistan, over the next 25years period i.e., from the years 2011 … test the temporal causality among poverty measures (i.e., head count ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap), growth …

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Income Inequality and its Consequences for Life Satisfaction: What Role do Social Cognitions Play?

Schneider, Simone - In: Social Indicators Research 106 (2012) 3, pp. 419-438

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Has transition improved well-being?

Gruen, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 1, pp. 11-30

In this paper we examine trends in economic well-being in transition countries from 1988 to 2008 to determine whether the populations of transition countries are better off today than prior to the transition process. To do this, we examine economic performance, inequality-adjusted well-being...

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Höhepunkt der Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland überschritten?

Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 43, pp. 3-15

development, the poverty risk in western Germany fell slightly from 2009 to 2010, while it remained unchanged in the eastern part …

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Rückgang der Einkommensungleichheit stockt

Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 46, pp. 13-23

and labour income. Alongside, the relative poverty risk has reached a record high in 2009 with a rate of 15 percent. For … decreased since reunification in Germany. The chance to escape from relative poverty within a four years period has come down by …

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Reduction in Income Inequality Faltering

Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 1, pp. 16-25

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) show that the risk of poverty did not rise further after a long period of upward movement. Income … mobility since German reunification. For example, the odds of exiting the risk of poverty within a period of four years has …

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Income Inequality and Economic Growth: A Simple Theoretical Synthesis

Chen, Been-Lon; Guo, Jang-Ting - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 6 (2005) 2, pp. 319-329

We show that in an AK model of endogenous growth with CRRA specifications for both private and public consumption goods, income inequality exerts theoretically ambiguous effects on the optimal capital tax rate and the economy¡¯s growth rate. In a calibrated version of the model, we find that...

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Income inequality, fiscal redistribution, and governmental corruption: evidence from Chinese provincial data

Mi, Zengyu; Liu, Qiongzhi - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 119-137

We build a theoretical model that describes the relationship between income inequality, fiscal redistribution and corruption in China. With between-group econometric model, using the provincial panel data of China from 1997 to 2006, this paper finds strong evidence in support of the propositions...

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Rising inequalities in income and health in China: Who is left behind?

Baeten, Steef; Van Ourti, Tom; van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1214-1229

In recent decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition approach using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1991–2006) to examine the extent to which changes in level and distribution of incomes and in...

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Deriving Macro Policy from Income Inequality Decompositions by Subgroups: A Cautionary Discussion

MEMİŞ, Emel - In: Ekonomik Yaklasim 24 (2013) 87, pp. 69-84

Redistributive macro policies widely refer to the evidence provided on disaggregated components of overall income inequality by different social groups. These decompositions help identify the determinants of income inequality and their relative contributions to the overall inequality, yet,...

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