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This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...
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production sectors, growth of income and employment over time, the redistribution of income among households in India. While GST …
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This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in …' rather than 'rightist' or 'leftist' inequality measures, lead to a picture of inequality in the distribution of consumption … expenditure widening over time, which is at odds with the impression of more or less unchanging inequality conveyed in some of the …
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This study tests the effects of inequality of opportunity on the economic performance of Indian states. This is first … state-level analysis of inequality of opportunity in income due to caste, religion and gender. Results suggest that there is … wide heterogeneity among Indian states in inequality of opportunity. Models overcoming the endogeneity problem in the …
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This study analyses the lack of robust conclusions about the association between inequality and economic growth. On the … basis of ex-ante concept of inequality of opportunity, the parametric measure of unequal opportunity is used by partitioning … inequality and unequal opportunity. The relative index of inequality of opportunity is used as explanatory variable in the growth …
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In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …
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With six essays exploring different aspects of economic growth, poverty, inequality and social security, this book …
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The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth "nexus" to finance-growth-inequality … data for two rounds the study attempts to assess the co-evolution of finance-growth-inequality in an intertemporal … borrowing. This questions the conventional wisdom regarding the policy aimed at financial inclusion. Inequality of income …
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The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
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Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...
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