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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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This review article presents the evolution of development theory during the XX century, the measurement of poverty, the … concept and the indices of multidimensional poverty. A special focus concerns the complex linkages between income inequality …, poverty and institutions during the growth process of developing countries. …
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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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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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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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-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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We relate technological adoption (of different technologies) with income inequality. We discovered that some technologies such as aviation, cell phones, electric production, internet, telephone, and TV are skill-complementary in raising inequality. We constructed standardized indexes of...
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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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This paper studies how income and bequest taxes affect income inequality. We firstly explore this relationship empirically using a panel of 20 OECD countries from 1980 to 2008. The data shows that an increase of income taxation tends to strengthen income inequality, while the inequality effect...
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