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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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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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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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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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This study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the Vietnamese people; and subsequent developments, which are...
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We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this … inequality adversely affects aggregate contributions, and this is on account of high endowment individuals contributing a … significantly smaller share than those with low endowments. This negative effect of inequality on cooperation is exacerbated in high …
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concludes that the pandemic could reinforce the existing trend towards higher social inequality. …
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We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary cooperation, and whether this … inequality adversely affects aggregate contributions, and this is on account of high endowment individuals contributing a … significantly smaller share than those with low endowments. This negative effect of inequality on cooperation is exacerbated in high …
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Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major … development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key … development aims. Still, an informed debate on the effects of inequality requires clear evidence. This review contributes to the …
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Mozambique on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty and inequality …
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