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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314255
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511245
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Global interpersonal inequality : trends and measurement
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - 2014
This paper discusses different approaches to the measurement of global interpersonal in equality. Trends in global … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228740
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Inequality : measurement, trends, impacts and policies
Addison, Tony; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 63 (2017) 4, pp. 603-607
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820174
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Gender inequality in employment in Mozambique
Gradín, Carlos; Tarp, Finn - 2017
We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152273
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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andrew D.; … - 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528633
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Ghana : Poverty reduction over thirty years
McKay, Andrew D.; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531063
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Poverty, inequality and social protection in Myanmar
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939960
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Inequality, institutions and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817337
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The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in Mozambique
Barletta, Giulia; Castigo, Finório; Egger, Eva-Maria; … - 2021
Mozambique on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545512