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GLOBALIZATION, LIBERALIZATION AND INCOME INEQUALITY: THE CASE OF CHINA
XUE, JINJUN; LUO, CHULIANG; LI, SHI - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 59 (2014) 01, pp. 1450002-1
China. Comparing the trends of economic growth and income distribution, we found that the economic reform and opening …-up policy promoted China's rapid growth while inducing an expansion in income disparity. We also found that the income gap had … been a force driving China's high growth in its earlier transition period but began to be an obstacle as the Chinese …
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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth; Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia
Balakrishnan, Ravi; Steinberg, Chad; Syed, Murtaza H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia’s recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As...
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Trends in Convergence in EU. Differences between EU-10 and EU-15
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - European Regional Science Association - 2013
Early, the convergence theory was suggestively expressed in the Solow model. This can be shown in line with the fact that while economic development is advancing (expressed by the income per capita growth), on long run there is a general convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical...
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An Interpretation of the Gini Coefficient in a Stiglitz Two-Type Optimal Tax Problem
Rasmussen, Bo Sandemann - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014
In a two-type Stiglitz (1982) model of optimal non-linear taxation it is shown that when the utility function relating to consumption is logaritmic the shadow price of the incentive constraint relating to the optimal tax problem exactly equals the Gini coefficient of the secondbest optimal...
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TRENDS IN INCOME DISTRIBUTION
ALBU, Lucian-Liviu - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 35 (2012) 2(44), pp. 33-44
In modern society the income distribution is one of the major problems. Usually, it is considered that a severe polarisation in matter of income per capita could have a major negative impact on the general process of economic development. This study is focussing on estimating dynamics of some...
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Kingdom of Lesotho; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Kingdom of Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper reports that consistent implementation of sound macroeconomic policies is critical to the attainment of poverty reduction objectives. At the central level, the authorities established sector working groups to facilitate the...
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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...
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Trends in Inequality, Welfare, and Growth in Pakistan, 1963-64 to 2004-05
Zakir, Nadia; Idrees, Muhammad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2009
The present study investigates the trends in inequality, welfare, and growth based on per capita household income/consumption in Pakistan, both its rural and urban areas, from 1963-64 to 2004-05. It employs Gini coefficient to measure inequalities and the Sen welfare index to estimate welfare....
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Income distribution in the United States: Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis and data non-stationarity
Jacobsen, Peter; Giles, David - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 7 (1998) 4, pp. 405-423
The hypothesis that income distribution follows an inverted-U pattern with respect to economic growth has been tested against US time-series data by several authors, and rejected. We reconsider this issue, paying special attention to data non-stationarity, and the use of 'unbalanced' Seemingly...
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Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty; Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Huang, Yifei; Singh, Raju Jan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Recent studies on the relationship between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that, by allowing more entrepreneurs to obtain financing, financial development improves the allocation of capital, which has a particularly large impact on the poor. Others argue that...
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