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economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …The political consequences of economic inequality have been debated in academic and policy circles for centuries. The …
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How did we come to think that eliminating poverty is a legitimate goal for public policy? What policies emerged in the hope of attaining that goal? The last 200 years have witnessed a dramatic change in thinking about poverty. Mainstream economic thinking in the eighteenth century held that...
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decomposition of poverty and inequality in 2000–2018 using official national household surveys. We find the growth since 2012 …, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas … often before 2015 they offset each other's effects. Inequality improved, as the proportions of households with both heads …
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education, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty … the dynamics of poverty alleviation. For promoting the equality of opportunities and poverty reduction, redistribution … de redistribution, ainsi qu’un accroissement de la productivité dans les secteurs des céréales pluviales et de fortes …
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, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty reduction … dynamics of poverty alleviation. For promoting the equality of opportunities and poverty reduction, redistribution issues …
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Using a macro panel of 31 European countries, this paper explores the hypothesis that cross-country differences in the exposition to the risk of poverty or social exclusion (as defined by the Europe 2020 anti‐poverty strategy) are strongly affected by countries' political, institutional and...
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-period consistency type closed-loop planning model that captures interdependence between growth and redistribution. Focusing on fix- flex … mode of price formation and two sources of income inequality viz. wage-profit inequality and inequality in wage earning … for an appropriate choice of strategy of growth with redistribution for removing poverty …
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Inequality has risen in many countries over the last two decades, especially in the transition economies, but also in … inequality is high and rising. Moreover, contrary to earlier theories of development, high inequality tends to reduce economic … inequality and growth: growth can be low (or negative) at low levels of inequality (due to disincentive effects) and low (or …
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This presentation is about poverty and redistribution in emerging economics. It was prepared for the Asian Development …
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This paper attempts to explicitly integrate the idea of reference group when measuring relative deprivation. It assumes that in assessing her situation in society an individual compares herself with individuals whose environment can be considered as being similar to hers. By environment we mean...
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