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Multiplier Decomposition, Poverty and Inequality in Income Distribution in a SAM Framework: the Vietnamese Case

Pansini, Rosaria Vega - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

. The approach we propose in this paper allows analyzing the level of inequality in the distribution of income linking the … the level of poverty and inequality to policy measures will be to derive the “accounting price multipliers matrix”, which …

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Social Mobility in Bolivia is Finally Improving!

Andersen, Lykke E. - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2009

This paper evaluates the degree of social mobility in Bolivia, both by comparing to other Latin American countries, and by comparing social mobility at different points in time. While Bolivia had one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the region in 1997, the last 10 years have seen...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …

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On the Constrained Contribution of Advances in Medical Knowledge to the Economic Growth of Developing Countries

Martina, Alan - College of Business and Economics, Australian National … - 2009

The conjectures examined are that: (i) advances in the medical knowledge are likely to have comparatively little (resp. considerable) impact on the rate of the growth of gross domestic product per capita (GDPPC) in a poor developing country if economic institutions are weak (resp. adequate);...

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Does Democracy Explain Gender Differentials in Education?

Cooray, Arusha - College of Business and Economics, Australian National … - 2009

This study shows that despite a strong empirical association between gender differentials in enrolment ratios and democracy, that democracy alone does not explain gender differentials in education in Africa and Asia. The results indicate that income, employment in agriculture, religious...

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Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper critically reviews the literature on finance and inequality, highlighting substantive gaps in the literature …. Finance plays a crucial role in most theories of persistent inequality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, economic theory provides a … rich set of predictions concerning both the impact of finance on inequality and about the relevant mechanisms. Although …

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Extracción de recursos naturales, desarrollo económico e inclusión social

Sanborn, Cynthia A. - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013

¿El Perú se escapará esta vez de “la maldición de los recursos naturales”? ¿Podrá usar los abundantes recursos que genera la minería hoy, para cerrar las brechas sociales y reorientar su economía para mañana? ¿Podrá limitar los impactos ambientales y sociales negativos, que las...

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Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There Was No Post-Columbian Reversal

Chanda, Areendam; Cook, C. Justin; Putterman, Louis - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1-28

Using data on place of origin of today's country populations and the indicators of level of development in 1500 used by … of early development, for which reversal for territories, however, fails to hold. Additional exercises lend support to … development than is quality of institutions. …

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Sviluppo, lavoro, territorio.

Corò, Giancarlo - In: ECONOMIA E SOCIETÀ REGIONALE 2014/1 (2014) 1, pp. 25-37

L’ipotesi di fondo di questo articolo è che il rilancio dello sviluppo economico italiano richiede una ricostruzione delle condizioni di efficienza, competitività e attrattività dei territori, anche allo scopo di favorire processi di innovazione diffusa e sperimentare forme originali di...

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La maldición de los recursos naturales y el bienestar social.

Arias, Nadyra Rodríguez; López, Claudia S. Gómez - In: Ensayos Revista de Economia XXXIII (2014) 1, pp. 63-90

En las últimas décadas, una de las hipótesis más estudiadas en economía es la que involucra el concepto de la maldición de los recursos naturales. De acuerdo con ello, la abundancia de recursos naturales provoca que los países tengan bajas tasas de crecimiento. En este trabajo, se analiza...

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