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COVID-19 : macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world
Addison, Tony; Sen, Kunal; Tarp, Finn - 2020
alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … deficit and debt ratios. This paper discusses these macroeconomic dimensions, focusing on the developing world. The paper …
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Aid and growth : asymmetric effects?
Dörr, Leo - 2024 - Version: March 2024
This paper provides new empirical findings on the aid-growth relation. We find evidence for considerable asymmetry in the aid-growth relation; i.e., aid cuts have a large negative impact on economic activity, while increasing aid may be ineffective in promoting growth. Development aid thus...
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Does aid affect inequality?
Kasuga, Hidefumi; Morita, Yuichi - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 58, pp. 6249-6262
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The interactive effects of remittances on economic growth and inequality in Western Balkan countries
Bajra, Ujkan Q. - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 3, pp. 757-775
Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances influence economic growth, their inflow also promotes a...
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Growth with adjectives : global poverty and inequality after the pandemic
Hoy, Christopher; Sumner, Andrew - 2020
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Does government spending affect income poverty? : a meta-regression analysis
Anderson, Edward; Jalles d'Orey, Maria Ana; Duvendack, Maren - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 103 (2018), pp. 60-71
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What Drives Inequality and Poverty in the EU? Exploring the Impact of Macroeconomic and Institutional Factors
Dafermos, Yannis - 2018
poverty in the EU over the period 1994–2008. We pay particular attention to the effects of macroeconomic environment, social … transfers that do not include pensions, exert a prominent impact on inequality and poverty. Also significant is the effect of … the GDP per capita. The impact of employment on inequality and poverty is not empirically sound. The same holds for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937941
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Equity market liberalization, credit constraints and income inequality
Sun, Puyang; Sen, Somnath; Jin, Shujing - 2012
This paper provides compelling evidence that equity market liberalization, the most efficient way to smooth financial market frictions such as credit constraints, can alleviate persistent cross-dynastic income inequality through increasing the accumulation of human capital. We examine the impact...
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Equity market liberalization, credit constraints and income inequality
Sun, Puyang; Sen, Somnath; Jin, Shujing - 2013
possibility of reducing inequality and poverty through equity market liberalization. -- income inequality ; equity market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723948
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Higher education and the fall and rise of inequality
Prettner, Klaus; Schaefer, Andreas - 2016
We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel overlapping generations model with three social classes: the rich, the middle class, and the poor. We show that there is an initial phase in which no social class invests in higher...
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