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In the measurement of multidimensional deprivation, dimensions of deprivation are often weighted by people using either their own implicit value judgements or data based statistical methods. Each of these methods has limitations. The weights based on implicit value judgements leave no scope for...
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Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to...
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Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the most significant changes in the distribution of incomes and earnings since the 1940s are leading...
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This chapter investigates recent advances in our understanding of the global distribution of income, and produces the first estimates of global inequality that take into account data on the incomes of the top one percent within countries. We discuss conceptual and methodological issues –...
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of elite capture, particularly in more unequal communities. The risk is higher when the gap between the poor and the non … their preferences. This paper contributes to the limited empirical literature on the existence of elite capture in social … the existence of elite capture under unequal communities. We further find that only when decision makers share similar …
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