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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The Western Development Plan has aimed at narrowing the income gap between … expenditure, however, has been on large capital-intensive projects rather than on education and other social spending. More … of other social benefits. A set of new indicators of nationwide inequality, based on household survey data, suggests that …
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A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Kobus, Martyna; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323665
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A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Kobus, Martyna; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient … equality ; Social welfare maximization ; Relative income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355518
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A bitter choice turned sweet : how acknowledging individuals' concern at having a low relative income serves to align utilitarianism and egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
When individuals' utility is a convex combination of their income and their concern at having a low relative income (the weights attached to income and to the concern at having a low relative income sum up to one), the maximization of aggregate utility yields an equal income distribution. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281236
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A bitter choice turned sweet : how acknowledging individuals’ concern at having a low relative income serves to align utilitarianism and egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
When individuals’ utility is a convex combination of their income and their concern at having a low relative income (the weights attached to income and to the concern at having a low relative income sum up to one), the maximization of aggregate utility yields an equal income distribution. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490143
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A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
Stark, Oded; Kobus, Martyna; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient … equality ; Social welfare maximization ; Relative income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349040
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Income Distribution, Informal Safety Nets, and Social Expenditures in Uganda
McDonald, Calvin L. - 2006
Inequality in Uganda rose during 1989-95, although this rise moderated in 1993-95. In 1993-95, real food consumption became more equal. Regional and urban-rural disparities in income and variations in income accruing to individuals with different educational levels principally explain between...
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The Cost of Inequality : Social Distance, Predatory Conduct, and the Financial Crisis
Brescia, Raymond H. - 2011
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Government Fiscal Policies and Redistribution in Asian Countries
Claus, Iris - 2012
. Moreover, the results suggest some distinctive differential distributive effect for government expenditure on social protection … in Asia. Social protection spending appears to increase income inequality, whereas it reduces it in the rest of the world …
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Economic Development, Poverty, and Inequality in Haiti During the Past 20 Years (1997-2017)
Ramirez, Byron - 2019
During the past 20 years, Haiti's development efforts have been stifled by natural disasters, poverty, and inequality. Given all of the current challenges facing Haiti, the World Bank Group country partnership framework aims to support the country's efforts to provide economic opportunities for...
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