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Income and consumption inequality in China : a comparative approach with India
Gradín, Carlos; Wu, Binbin - 2019
We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than expenditure in India, especially at the top of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098401
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Consumption inequality in urban China, 1995-2013
Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina - 2017
We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876575
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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470897
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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471982
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The Arab inequality puzzle : the role of income sources in Egypt and Tunisia
Krafft, Caroline; Davis, Elizabeth E. - 2019
Egypt and Tunisia are perceived to have high levels of inequality, yet based on standard measures, inequality in these two countries is not unusually high. In this study we explore a new dimension of inequality in Egypt and Tunisia by using a more complete measure of income and decomposing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145465
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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
It is clear that in the transition out of the COVID-19 crisis in Colombia there will be great need for formal job creation. One source that has been widely discussed in policy circles is strengthening linkages of Colombian firms with Global Value Chains (GVCs). Another source that has received...
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Education, Income Distribution and Innovation
Shen, Ling - 2004
In this paper we study the impact of the income distribution on innovation through the demand for quality goods. For simplicity, we assume that there are two types of consumers, rich and poor. The income distribution is measured by the population share of the poor and the relative income of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263108
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Inequality and Growth: A Joint Analysis of Demand and Supply
Shen, Ling - 2006
Empirical evidence on the relationship between a country?s wealth inequality and economic growth is ambiguous. This paper provides reasonable explanations of this ambiguity. We investigate the implications which the shape of wealth distribution has for economic growth in a framework combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263165
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Snakes and ladders and loaded dice : poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008-2017
Zizzamia, Rocco; Schotte, Simone; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2019
Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage are consequential in determining material conditions in the present, and how these markers structure economic opportunity over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic...
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Inequality and Trade Policy : Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions
Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2019
trade restrictiveness indices for household consumption items and industry affiliations using both tariffs and the ad … cost of consumption for poorer households, while it is progressive through the earnings channel in urban areas and neutral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870281