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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444749
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008
García-Fernándeza, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - 2012
In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310638
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997-2008
García-Fernández, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-15, pp. 1-40
In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312012
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008
García-Fernández, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - 2013
). Finally we study the causes of the obtained polarization results in a multinomial logit analysis. -- polarization ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731409
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008
García-Fernándeza, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - 2012
; poverty ; multi-resolution analysis ; income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632195
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Growth and Distributive Effects of Public Infrastructure Investments in China
Zhang, Yumei - 2018
poverty and modestly improves equality. The results not only suggest that increasing PII can drive economic growth in China …Public infrastructure investments are seen as one of the key engines of economic growth in China. Yet, there is little … quantitative evidence on the growth and distributive effects of public infrastructure investments (PII) in China. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938236
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Growth and Distributive Effects of Public Infrastructure Investments in China
Zhang, Yumei - 2018
poverty and modestly improves equality. The results not only suggest that increasing PII can drive economic growth in China …Public infrastructure investments are seen as one of the key engines of economic growth in China. Yet, there is little … quantitative evidence on the growth and distributive effects of public infrastructure investments (PII) in China. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920734
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What's happened to poverty and inequality in Indonesia over half a century?
Hill, Hal - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 1, pp. 68-97
Indonesia has achieved moderately fast economic growth for most of the past 50 years. Has this growth translated into … of human welfare, particularly poverty and inequality. Combined with major improvements in the coverage and quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328162
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What’s Happened to Poverty and Inequality in Indonesia over Half a Century?
Hill, Hal - 2021
Indonesia has achieved moderately fast economic growth for most of the past 50 years. Has this growth translated into … of human welfare, particularly poverty and inequality. Combined with major improvements in the coverage and quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229947
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Socio-economic development in South Asia : the past 50 years
Osmani, Siddiqur Rahman - 2018
looking forward to a much better future - in terms of both growth and human development - than was deemed possible at the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913065