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revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …
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The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from...
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This handbook presents a step-by-step guide to applying the incidence analysis used in the multi-country project CEQ. We define the pre- and post-net transfers income concepts, discuss the methodological assumptions used to construct them, explain how taxes, subsidies and transfers should be...
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In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …
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or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty. …
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The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. However, drawing conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729175
Smart decisions about where to focus poverty alleviation projects depend on accurate projections of where the bulk of …, Peter Edward and Andy Sumner introduce new model of growth, inequality, and poverty that allows comparison of a wide range … of input assumptions. They find that it is plausible that $1.25 and $2 global poverty will reduce substantially by 2030 …
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