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relevant to understanding current phenomena like the evolution of Chinese inequality. The paper shows how the Kuznetsian … framework can be used, for example, in predicting the differential relationship between urbanization and inequality in India … versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653364
Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question we extend the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential destinations, secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653420
Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question we extend the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential destinations, secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641456
Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question we extend the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential destinations, secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958052
relevant to understanding current phenomena like the evolution of Chinese inequality. The paper shows how the Kuznetsian … framework can be used, for example, in predicting the differential relationship between urbanization and inequality in India … versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960255
relevant to understanding current phenomena like the evolution of Chinese inequality. The paper shows how the Kuznetsian … framework can be used, for example, in predicting the differential relationship between urbanization and inequality in India … versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631507
inequality in Asia. Focusing on data for four countries—the Peoples’ Republic of China, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines …—the paper asks three questions. First, how much of the past increase in inequality can be attributed to urbanization per se … urban–rural income gap, inequality within the urban sector, and inequality within the rural sector? Second, how might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011009746
One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252615
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households and individuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Second, while the outcomes on unemployment, poverty and inequality are … themselves negatively affected by increasing inequality, poverty and unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395714