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Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …
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European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that...
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attainment, and income, also play an important role. Perceptions of equality, in turn, are significatively correlated to demand …
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Studying the poverty and income distribution effects of macroeconomic policies or shocks requires a methodology that …-induced endogenous economic transitions. Illustrations of that approach are drawn from the Global Income Distribution Dynamics (GIDD …
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onwards), and income gains are likely to be concentrated at the top of the income distribution. The additional foreign … disparities and widening income inequality. Using the additional revenues of the Canal expansion in a targeted cash transfer …
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European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality – that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor – less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality,...
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Studying the poverty and income distribution effects of macroeconomic policies or shocks requires a methodology that …
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Standard international trade models have consistently produced results that, compared ex post with real world data, show the right sign but much smaller magnitudes. Besides, for the case of developing countries, these same models predict that unskilled labour would gain from liberalization, and...
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findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather … significantly associated with reduced downward mobility and increased income growth. However, a similar transition from the private … sector to the public sector is negatively associated with income growth …
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