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, Malaysia and Indonesia, poverty has declined, while income inequality trends have varied, rising most clearly in Thailand. With …Rapid growth and structural change have reduced poverty in East Asian economies. Income inequality has been low in … increased inequality despite considerable poverty reduction. Hence, the common claim of egalitarian growth in East Asia may have …
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on blood donation than community-specific inequality. …
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-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the … inverted-U association between self-reported health status and income inequality, which suggests that high inequality in a … community poses threats to health. We also find that high inequality increases the probability of health-compromising behavior …
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investigate how this expansion affected income inequality within European regions by separating the trade pressure experienced in … increase of inequality that is concentrated mostly in the lower part of regional income distributions. We determine a … significant channeling of the trade pressure to income inequality through the shrinking manufacturing sector, the increasing …
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Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …
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This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is … west). A regression-based accounting framework is then used to explore root sources of the rising inequality. Policy …
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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and …
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the major source, followed by the 'growth mobility'. The comparison with income inequality indicated that the low degree … of mobility is not conducive to the narrowing of inequality. However, the high degree is not accompanied by the …
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Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …
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We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …
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