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Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern Africa
Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Mishra, Diptimayee; Sahoo, Auro Kumar; … - 2020
understanding of growth and inequality in the region. The region has experienced β- and σ-convergence; however, growth rates of per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404488
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Within-country poverty convergence: evidence from Mexico
López-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; … - 2020
Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis...
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Top lights : bright cities and their contribution to economic development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951641
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Spatial income inequality in Brazil, 1872-2000
Reis, Eustáquio José - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 2, pp. 119-140
The paper provides historical perspectives on spatial economic inequalities in Brazil making use of a database on Brazilian municipalities from 1872 to 2000. A suit of maps and graphs describe the geographic factors shaping the historical development of the Brazilian economy highlighting the...
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Income Distribution Dynamics and Cross-Region Convergence in Europe : Spatial Filtering and Novel Stochastic Kernel Representations
Fischer, Manfred M.; Stumpner, Peter - 2007
a slow catching-up of the poorest regions and a process of polarisation, with a small group of very rich regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051351
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Convergence or divergence patterns in income distribution across countries : a new evidence from a club clustering algorithm
Espoir, Delphin Kamanda - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32
Since globalisation accelerated in the early 1990s, income inequality has increased in most developed countries and in … some middle-income countries, including China and India. Also, inequality has declined in most countries of Latin America …. In this study, I examined whether there has been convergence in inequality between 2000 and 2015. To this end, I …
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A century of regional inequalities in Brazil
Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos; Alves, Pedro Jorge Holanda - 2022
five Brazilians' macro-regions, from 1920 to 2016. The use of non-parametric statistics reveals rough short-term paths of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428797
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Income disparities in Poland through the lens of economic geography
López Rodríguez, Jesús - 2012
Second nature geography variables are very relevant in the explanation of income disparities across regions within … equation. The estimation of this equation was carried out for 2000, 2004 and 2008 using regional data on Polish regions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558545
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Income Inequality, Urban Size and Economic Growth in OECD Regions
Royuela, Vicente - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to understand how income inequality is associated with economic growth in OECD regions and … whether the degree and type of urban concentration affects this relationship. Both income inequality and urban concentration … household survey data and macroeconomic databases, covering a period ranging from 2004 to 2012 for comparable regions in 15 OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281414
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A spatial interpretation of the persistency of China's provincial inequality
Yu, Xiaofan - 2011
-provincial income inequality have been increasing and their respective contribution to the total income inequality remains relatively … development, this paper investigates the nexus between the spatial dependence and income inequality in China on a prefectural … level. Using the decomposition results of the inequality and spatial dependence of inter- and intra-provincial groups, and …
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