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Intergenerational mobility and interpersonal inequality in an African economy
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - In: Journal of development economics 110 (2014), pp. 327-344
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Chapter 22. The Idea of Antipoverty Policy
Ravallion, Martin - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1967-2061). 2015
How did we come to think that eliminating poverty is a legitimate goal for public policy? What policies emerged in the hope of attaining that goal? The last 200 years have witnessed a dramatic change in thinking about poverty. Mainstream economic thinking in the eighteenth century held that...
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Chapter 21. Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1885-1966). 2015
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail …: democracy does not lead to a uniform decline in post-tax inequality, but can result in changes in fiscal redistribution and …
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Cross-country inequality trends
Acemoglu, Daron - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 113 (2003), pp. F121-149
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Cross-country inequality trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
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Cross country inequality trends
Acemoglu, Daron (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Cross-country inequality trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
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Tasks, automation, and the rise in US wage inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2022
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Tasks, automation, and the rise in U.S. wage inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 90 (2022) 5, pp. 1973-2016
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Distributional Outcomes of a Decentralized Welfare Program
Galasso, Emanuela - 1999
April 2000 - Community-level targeting of antipoverty programs is now common. Do local community organizations target the poor better than the central government? In one program in Bangladesh, the answer tends to be yes, but performance varies from village to village. The authors try to explain...
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