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This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 … support. These findings are robust to, among others, using night-lights instead of GDP, different democracy measures and …
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The process of structural transformation forms the very basis of economic growth and development. This paper analyses the implications of alternate patterns of structural change for changes in the overall distribution of income within an economy. An empirical analysis is carried out based on...
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This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
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This paper reviews changes in global, between-country and within-country inequality over 1980-2000 against the background of the shifts that occurred in this area during the globalisation of 1870-1914. The paper finds that recent changes in global and between-country inequality are not marked...
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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in the world, by continent and by "region" (countries grouped by income level). They use a Gini decomposition that allows … these continents is explained by inequality within countries). Next the authors divide the world into three groups: the rich …
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