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intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable …
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land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …
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On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …
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On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781941
public safety at given own-income. Theown-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern …
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<p>Word searches of <em>Google</em>’s library of digitized books suggest that there have been two “Poverty Enlightenments†since 1700, one near the end of the 18th century and the second near the end of the 20th. The historical literature suggests that only the second came with a widespread...</p>
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The 20th Human Development Report has introduced a new version of its famous Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI aggregates country-level attainments in life expectancy, schooling and income per capita. Each year's rankings by the HDI are keenly watched in both rich and poor countries. The...
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There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect of ‘globalization’. The paper views the issue through both ‘macro’ and ‘micro’ empirical lenses. The macro lens uses cross-country...
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intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738725
series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole. …
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