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Recent research has highlighted a negative impact of inequality on economic growth. We re-evaluate this hypothesis focusing on both inequality and poverty and their interaction. We replicate previous results showing that inequality has a negative impact on growth. However, we show that when we...
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Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century posits the return r on capital to be larger than the economic growth rate g as a main driver of inequalities. This article points out the circumstances under which the reverse inference holds. We show that increasing inequality promotes increasing...
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We examine secular trends in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1850–1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of recruits disaggregated at the regional level. We find that heights stagnated generally among the 1850s birth cohorts. The secular increase in heights...
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This paper explores the causes of India's productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic … response, because India was far away from its income-possibility frontier. Registered manufacturing, which had been built up in …
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estimates potential growth for China, India, and five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and … Vietnam) during 1993–2013. The main findings include: (i) both China and India have recently exhibited a slowdown in …;(iii) over the longer term, demographic factors will be much more supportive in India and some ASEAN economies than in China …
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Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China, and India (collectively referred to as "ACI") over the medium-term. This …
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two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …
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India using annual (time series) data, from 1990 to 2015, retrieved from Indiastat website. By employing the methods of … empirically and Multiple linear regression is used to identify the determinants of Environmental pollution in India. The long run … more Pollution in India. Based on the analysis, Policy implications are provided, regarding healthy and pollution free …
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