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On the empirics of violence, inequality, and income
Riveros Gavilanes, John Michael - In: Journal of economics & management 45 (2023) 1, pp. 102-136
Aim/purpose - This paper aims to examine with new empirical evidence the joint relationships between violence, income …, the results confirm a strong positive relationship between violence and income inequality. Conversely, a negative but non …-robust relationship exists between violence and real income per capita. Additionally, the findings show that human capital based on years …
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Estimating income poverty and inequality from the Gallup World Poll : the case of Latin America and the Caribbean
Gasparini, Leonardo; Gluzmann, Pablo - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825128
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Estimating income poverty and inequality from the Gallup World Poll : the case of Latin America and the Caribbean
Gasparini, Leonardo; Gluzmann, Pablo - In: Journal of income distribution : an international quarterly 21 (2012) 1, pp. 3-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009719887
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Inequality, well-being and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Oberoi, Jaideep; Ahsan, Syed - 2003
violence) appeared to provide the more precise estimates in every case. Consequently we argue that the foremost policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514135
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Inequality, Well-Being and Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ahsan, Syed M.; Oberoi, Jaideep S. - 2021
of the institutional factor dominates that of the income variable. Within IC, political stability (or lack of violence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320102
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Poverty alleviation strategies under informality : evidence for Latin America
Bloeck, Martin Caruso; Galiani, Sebastián; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-40
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...
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The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
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Inequality, well-being and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ahsan, Syed M.; Oberoi, Jaideep - 2003
, political stability (or lack of violence) appeared to provide the more precise estimates in every case. Consequently we argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001728869
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What effect does public and private capital have on income inequality? : the case of the Latin America and Caribbean region
Santiago, Renato; Fuinhas, José Alberto; Marques, … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-30
The effects that the Latin America and Caribbean capital stock (public and private) had on the income inequality levels of 18 countries from this region were analyzed, over a period ranging from 1995 to 2017, recurring to an autoregressive distributed lag model in the form of an unrestricted...
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Broken windows policing and crime: evidence from 80 Colombian cities
Mejía, Daniel; Norza, Ervyn; Tobón, Santiago; … - 2022
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