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Income inequality and redistribution in Sub-Saharan Africa

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Scaturro, Francesca; Jordá, Vanesa - In: Journal of African economies 32 (2023), pp. ii296-ii319

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Gradín, Carlos (ed.); Leibbrandt, Murray V. (ed.); … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and … global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the … high inequality context and, with the changing global inequality situation as context, country chapters investigate the …

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Information, identification, or neither? Experimental evidence on role models in Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2018

How can development programmes reach out to remote communities? This paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of a role models intervention that aims to inspire ethnic minority households to start businesses and diversify income sources. The experiment took place in three provinces of...

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Information, identification, or neither? : experimental evidence on role models in Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2018

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Introduction to income inequalities and redistribution in China

Tarp, Finn (ed.) - In: China economic review : an international journal 62 (2020)

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Ghana: Poverty reduction over thirty years

McKay, Andy; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015

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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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - 2015

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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Mozambique: Off-track or temporarily sidelined?

Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015

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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Global interpersonal inequality: Trends and measurement

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - 2014

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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Viet Nam: The dragon that rose from the ashes

Tarp, Finn - 2018

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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