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This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...
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This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the distribution of household welfare over both short-run and...
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This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
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This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
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This chapter reviews the long-run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time?...
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This article discusses:(a income distribution between the middle class, the rich and the poor; (b) the incomes of the middle class, the rich and the poor; (c) the relative incomes of some subclasses among the middle class, the rich and the poor, including that of the super rich within the rich...
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economic impact.Yet if COVID-19 exacerbated and exposed the state’s poverty problems, it was not the cause of them. Even before …
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This study traces the interactions between economic growth, income inequality and consumption poverty in a sample of … that experiences have varied: some countries have seen sharp falls in income poverty; others have witnessed marked … conclusions. First, agricultural market liberalization has been conducive to reductions in rural poverty. Second, market …
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