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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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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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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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INEQUALITY WITHIN AND AMONG NATIONS

Lovell, Michael C. - Economics Department, Wesleyan University - 1998

This paper looks at both within country and among country inequality. In the spirit of Dalton[1920] and Atkinson[1970] this paper reports estimates of the welfare loss arising from inequality. The paper also explores the implications of Duesenberry style interdependent utility functions when a...

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Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient by Income Components: Various Types of Applications and Interpretations

Aaberge, Rolf; Aslaksen, Iulie - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1996

This paper aims at clarifying the notion "overall distributive effect" of an income component or a policy proposal and moreover discusses various approaches for assessing the distributional impact of the components of total income. We pay particular attention to the problem of evaluating the...

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Forecasting Iranâ€™s Rice Imports Trend During 2009-2013

Pakravan, Mohammad Reza; Kavoosi Kalashami, Mohammad; … - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management and … 01 (2011) 1

In the present study Iran's rice imports trend is forecasted, using artificial neural networks and econometric methods, during 2009 to 2013, and their results are compared. The results showed that feet forward neural network leading with less forecast error and had better performance in...

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Size Distribution of Income Among Rice-Based Farming Households in South Eastern States of Nigeria

Chikezie, C.; Ibekwe, U.C.; Ohajianya, D.O.; Orebiyi, J.S. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management and … 01 (2011) 1

The study was designed to investigate the income distribution among rice-based farming households in Okigwe Agricultural Zone of Imo State, Nigeria. A sample of 120 rice-based farmers was selected by multistage sampling technique. Data were collected with a well structured questionnaire...

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Race & Gender Differences in the Experience of Earnings Inequality in the US from 1995 to 2010

Schneider, Markus P. A. - Department of Economics, New School for Social Research - 2013

This paper studies the evolution of the earnings distribution from 1995 to 2010 of four major de- mographic groups are considered separately, which shows that there are important differences in the experience of inequality that imply that race and gender are not separable when it comes to...

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The Use of Finite Mixtures of Lognormal Distribution for the Modelling of Household Income Distributions in the Czech Republic

Malá, Ivana - In: Politická ekonomie 2013 (2013) 3, pp. 356-372

In the text finite mixtures of lognormal distributions are used for the modelling of net annual income per capita and equivalized income of the Czech households (in CZK) in 2004-2010. The development of distribution of number of members of households is analysed and the characteristics of...

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Inequality and economic growth: theoretical and operational approach

ANDREI, Ana; CRĂCIUN, Liliana - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XXII(2015) (2015) 1(602), Spring, pp. 195-204

The relationship between inequality and the process of economic development is still controversial. In this paper, besides a short overview of the economic literature, we present selected models used to verify the relationship between growth and inequality. We also make a brief analysis of...

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