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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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Inequality and human development : the role of different parts of the income distribution
Castells-Quintana, David; Gradín, Carlos; Royuela, Vicente - 2022
several country-specific characteristics, including the quality of institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380766
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Wealth inequality and economic growth : evidence from the world inequality database
Steenbrink, Rachel; Skali, Ahmed - 2024
Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this relationship has rarely been studied empirically, with a few exceptions covering a very restricted country sample or short timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553772
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The distributional impact of the Sierra Leone conflict on household welfare
Reilly, Barry; Sam, Hannah - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-41
three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the … experienced a sharp reduction in household expenditure inequality in the immediate aftermath of the conflict with most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014328817
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Inequality in pre-industrial urban Bohemia : the city of Budweis
Kolář, Daniel - 2021
Motivated by the lack of previous research on historical inequality in Central Europe, this paper constructs wealth inequality statistics for a larger town in South Bohemia, Budweis. The data sources are rare detailed local tax censuses from 1416 and 1523 and a national tax register from 1654 as...
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Inequality and economic development : an overview
Galor, Oded - 2009
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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of Piketty. Abandoning the former's view that inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408850
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Enterprise, Inequality and Economic Development
Lloyd-Ellis, Huw; Bernhardt, Dan - 2000
We characterize an equilibrium development process driven by the interaction of the distribution of wealth with credit constraints and the distribution of entrepreneurial skills. When efficient entrepreneurs are relatively abundant, a "traditional" development process emerges in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152185
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The legacy of representation in medieval Europe for incomes and institutions today
Pavlik, Jamie Bologna; Young, Andrew T. - In: Southern economic journal 88 (2021) 1, pp. 414-448
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The nature of conflict
Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015
contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …
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