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Mozambique : off-track or temporarily sidelined?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in...
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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andrew D.; … - 2015
After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....
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Ghana : Poverty reduction over thirty years
McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015
period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
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Global interpersonal inequality : trends and measurement
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - 2014
interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …
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Inequality: the original economic sin of capitalism? : an evaluation of Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the twenty-first century"
Facchini, François; Couvreur, Stéphane - In: European journal of political economy 39 (2015), pp. 281-287
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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
-Swan and Boyce-Fofack-Ndikumana. The central argument presented is that the inequality problem is at the heart of rational … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … economy (or capitalism-fuelled illicit capital flight) is higher than the growth rate in African countries, inequality in …
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Reflections on housing, property price booms and inequality in response to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the XXIst century
Bonnet, Odran; Bono, Pierre-Henri; Chapelle, Guillaume; … - In: Revue d'économie politique 125 (2015) 3, pp. 317-346
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Confronting inequality : review article on Thomas Piketty on "Capital in the 2st Century"
Sawyer, Malcolm C. - In: International review of applied economics 29 (2015) 6, pp. 878-889
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The comparative inclusive human development of globalisation in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...
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Capital and wealth taxation in the 21st century
Piketty, Thomas - In: National tax journal 68 (2015) 2, pp. 449-458
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