employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The …In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world …

optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …

inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very … income, inequality and poverty over time, and to explain why they evolved in the way they did. We relate changes in …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

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 …

investment (FDI) on cross-country differences in productivity. We construct a spatial Gini coefficient of labor productivity … across countries, and weighted indices of FDI and gross domestic investment (GDI). We then examine their time series … properties to explore the relations of FDI and GDI with productivity. Although we find little evidence of FDI flows - which have …

opposed to absolute poverty. If one accepts that taxation is to fund public services, the question arises, at least in … issue of which is more pressing, relative as opposed to absolute poverty?The contention in this paper is that there is a far …