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Recent developments in the Chinese economy
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003367625
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Recent developments in the Chinese economy : analysis of science parks, FDI, economic growth, bilateral trade and income inequality
Heshmati, Almas - In: Recent developments in the Chinese economy, (pp. 15-34). 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725573
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How ICT investment and energy use influence the productivity of Korean industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339597
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Inequalities and Their Measurement
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper is a review of the recent advances in the measurement of inequality. Inequality can have several dimensions. Economists are mostly concerned with the income and consumption dimensions of inequality. Several inequality indices including the most widely used index of inequality namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261969
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The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts and empirical results from different case studies are presented. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262018
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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262022
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Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267644
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Stochastic dominance amongst Swedish income distributions
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - 1998
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/65, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
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The inclusive growth impacts of fiscal policies in developing Asia
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - In: Economic growth in the 21st century : new research, (pp. 159-183). 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422396