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manufacturing sector toward high value-added products. However, regional inequality in China has increased considerably behind the … transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality. This paper contributes to the literature by employing a database … evolution of regional inequality. In addition, the contributions of the major industries to inequality in industrialization are …
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income inequality on the other. The contrasting movements in poverty and inequality render intriguing the question of whether … inequality suggests otherwise. The implication is that the growth process has been inclusive in some dimensions but not in others … individuals have failed to link up with the growth process, thereby exacerbating inequality. The problem was that within each …
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This paper examines the simultaneous evolution of income inequality and economic growth using the provincial data from … China. The VAR and system-GMM (a la Arellano–Bond) statistical methods are employed. We find that inequality reduction from … faster provincial growth is statistically insignificant. But, high income inequality within the province raises the …
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outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …
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urban inequality, a reduction in urban poverty, and a lower level of overall inclusive growth of a city. …
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This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the most important factors explaining income inequality are location …
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Using social opportunity function approach, this work assesses, firstly, the change in and access to education and employment opportunities available to the population and secondly, how equitably these opportunities are distributed. Opportunity Index (OI) and Equity Index of Opportunities (EIO)...
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consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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(that is, poverty, inequality, economic growth, education, employment, unemployment and the standard of living index) based … increase in the growth rate of urban inequality, a reduction in the growth rate of urban poverty and a lower level of overall …
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Over the past two decades Sub-Saharan African countries have experienced accelerated economic growth. This positive trend represents a huge opportunity to improve the living standards of millions of Africans and foster inclusive and sustainable development. At the regional level however, such...
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