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1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a …
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Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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Despite that global internet usage continues to expand given the increase in the number of computer ownership and Internet access, a divide persists between information rich and information poor, which is people with lower incomes, education levels, skill and capacity, minorities, as well as...
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Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade...
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of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …
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What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are …
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This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial … the poor as they diminish estimated household income-inequality. Financial size does not have a significant income … in the literature provide new insights into the finance-inequality nexus. Policy implications are discussed. …
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Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to …
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which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure …) political liberalization has a disequalizing effect and; (3) economic freedom has a positive (negative) effect on inequality … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …
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