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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight …
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This study focuses on analysing the linkages between output growth, employment and poverty, at both the macro and micro … levels. At the macro level, the linkage between poverty and output growth is conceptualised in terms of the average …
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The reform program and growth pattern exhibited by the Bolivian economy in the last decade did not favour employment … employment is concentrated, presented the lowest growth rates of GDP, labour productivity and real incomes. The present paper …
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macroeconomic imbalances, high inflation, low growth, as well as low-quality public policies. When redistributive efforts are short … that reduce growth and thwart poverty reduction efforts. The argument of this paper is that there are various possible …
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
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In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the … reduction into components arising from growth, improved income distribution, and heterogeneous inflation. We find the component … level from the household data and estimate a system of equations that characterize the dynamic relationship between growth …
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levels using the function of the aggregate production approach of education human capital growth using the Mincerian method …
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725447
A recent paper by Dollar and Kraay (2001) finds that higher primary educational attainment of the workforce does not increase the income of the poor except for its effect on average income. We test the robustness of their finding by using a broader measure of human capital that accounts for...
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. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in …
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