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design of policies to reduce inequality and promote economic growth. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on which … interdependencies between nine different categories of social spending, inequality and growth in 36 OECD countries over the period 1995 …-2017. According to the results of our work, based on a PVAR model, achieving a decrease in inequality without decreasing output growth …
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This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority of the global poor and it will hence have to play a...
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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
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rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … America, while in Africa the experience is very heterogeneous. While gender inequality has decreased slightly, large …
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effects on growth and on the evolution of income inequality; (ii) raising the consumption tax generates about as much economic … reduces inequality by more than utilizing the consumption tax. Hence, there is growth-inequality trade-off. …
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