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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
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Advanced economies have a significantly longer history of using fiscal policy to tackle inequality and promote … policy can have a significant effect on inequality which provides some cause for optimism about its equity …
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Following a benchmarking exercise, we estimate the spending required to reach satisfactory progress in the Sustainable Development Goals in the health, education, and infrastructure sectors in Brazil. We find that there is room for savings in education (up to 1.5 percentage point of GDP) and...
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This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household income inequality whereas financial development is proxied with financial depth …
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theoretical framework for the relationship between structural reforms, economic growth and income inequality. We argue that … inequality. We conclude by proposing a 7-point agenda for future research. …
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This study establishes economic growth needed for supply-side mobile money drivers in developing countries to be positively related to mobile money innovations in the perspectives of mobile money accounts, the mobile phone used to send money, and the mobile phone used to receive money. The...
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This paper aims to analyze the wealth inequality in Bulgaria during the period Q4.2005- Q2.2015, using two types of … inequality. The dynamics of derived Gini coefficients suggests that gross wealth inequality is steadily rising in spite of recent … divergence between deposit and loans Gini coefficients. Inequality should be addressed for overcoming the buildup of systematic …
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Ten of the post-communist countries managed to integrate into EU. Which are the subjective outcomes of socio-economic transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these questions I used data from Candidate...
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This study provides minimum economic growth (or GDP growth) critical masses or thresholds that should be exceeded in order for demand-side mobile money factors to favorably drive mobile money innovations for financial inclusion in developing countries. The considered mobile money innovations...
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