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, intermediate and proximate causes of growth and development. …
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-independence development have translated into comparable rates of educational and social opportunities for all strata in the village economy …
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"An Unequal Democracy?: Seeing Latin America through European Eyes" is the result of a conference organized by the International Institute for Governance of Catalonia in November 2003, with support from the government of Catalonia and the Special Office in Europe of the IDB. At the conference, a...
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …
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believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post … performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was …
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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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The Club de Madrid and the Maastricht School of Management wanted to respond to the challenge of encouraging new thinking on the link between economic performance and social conditions. We invited a range of thinkers and writers from intergovernmental bodies, policy think tanks, academia and...
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This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …
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importance of inequality as part of the global development agenda and details on the possible future governance system of … emergence, consolidation or strengthening of new donors and, secondly, changing map of development and global poverty. It is in … this new context in which new development agenda -the post-2015- will be configured, which will come to replace, and old …
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