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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal

Attili, Federico - 2020

The socioeconomic impact of spatial concentration has been receiving an increasing attention during the last two decades. Consequently, the necessity of effective measures of this phenomenon has increased too. This paper considers a population partitioned by subgroups and develops a...

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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal

Attili, Federico - 2021 - Rev. ed.

This paper considers a partitioned population and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which measure the within and the between groups inequality. Differently from the most widespread inequality measure decompositions, having a between component that compares the means...

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Spatial consumption inequality in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos - 2024

Mozambique, thereby contributing to the country's economic development substantially. …

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Rural-Urban Inequality in China : Spatial or Sectoral?

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2014

In recent years Chinese economic policy has re-emphasized agriculture and the rural areas because the gap between rural and urban incomes has widened again. This issue is also at the centre of the quot;Western developmentquot; strategy. However, it is not clear whether spatial factors determine...

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Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015

.e., the determinants of the convergence process. We find evidence for an N-shaped relationship between development and … regional inequality. Geography, mobility and trade openness are also highly important. …

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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s : a district-level view

Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, Rajendra Kumar; … - 2013

in terms of initial conditions of development. By identifying these connections, the study seeks to illuminate the role … of aspects of physical infrastructure, financial development and human capital in influencing regional patterns of growth … than the average, even after conditioning on development measures, suggesting other causes of backwardness. …

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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s : a further look

Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, Rajendra Kumar; … - 2013

This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 59 of India's 78 agro-climatic regions from the National Sample Survey. It extends the work of Singh et al. (2003) in two ways. First, it allows for differences in baseline growth performance across...

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Trade, integration, and interregional inequality

Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: April 08, 2014

countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends …

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Trade, integration and interregional inequality : conference paper

Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: February 20, 2013

estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade …

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The effects of trade openness on regional inequality in South Korea

Heo, Soojeong; Oh, Jinhwan - 2015

This paper is to analyze the effect of trade openness on regional inequality of South Korea. Trade has been the driving force of Korea's economic growth since the 1960's and it still expands its trade openness through active participation on bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. In...

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