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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
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The poor, the prosperous and the 'inbetweeners' : a fresh perspective on global society, inequality and growth
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andrew - 2014
whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251665
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Miserly developments
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008
high growth rates do not moderate miserliness. Finally, considering the world as a single entity, we find a dramatic rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808963
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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575162
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578752
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Economic growth evens-out happiness : evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252825
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Globalisation and income distribution - dynamics and structure of income in emerging economies
Tomkiewicz, Jacek - 2020
Goal of the text is to find links between current phase of economic globalisation and income distribution in developing economies. Dynamics and structure of income in so called emerging economies is in the bigger and bigger extend affected by growing international flows of trade and capital....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308407
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Global income distribution and the middle-income strata : implications for the world development taxonomy debate
Madrueño-Aguilar, Rogelio - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 29 (2017) 1, pp. 1-18
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Economic thought in the capitalist system as a determinant of social, economic and technological development
Dragičević-Radičević, Tatjana; Gavrilović, Milica - In: SEER : journal for labour and social affairs in Eastern … 16 (2013) 4, pp. 481-486
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