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This paper joins in the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, providing an analysis of its structure and characteristics. Using several measurements, it finds that 40-60 percent of Latin American households are middle class, a share which has consolidated over the past decade....
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This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
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Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …
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evidence that Federalism is a strong predictor of greater income inequality in developing economies. It is also a strong … appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. …
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Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …
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This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … correlation between the two variables is rather low in international perspective. Urban inequality as measured by the Gini …
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This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …
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rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …
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This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … correlation between the two variables is rather low in international perspective. Urban inequality as measured by the Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477213