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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of … poverty decomposition. …
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This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …
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inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …
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Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …
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poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …
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This paper analyses poverty reduction in Bhutan between two points in time — 2003 and 2007 — from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty regardless of the indicators’ weights, deprivation cutoffs and identification criterion of the poor. This … poverty among those who were less intensively poor, although not among those who were more intensively poor. Rather than …
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Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …
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This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …
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In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …
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