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Ethnic inequality
Alesina, Alberto; Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - 2012
comparative development. We also show that ethnic inequality goes in tandem with lower levels development also within countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420261
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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short …-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409158
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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria
Archibong, Belinda - 2016
Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain … locally administered services, outcomes are stickier and largely divergent for wealth, education, and historically federally … puts forth the thesis that persistent inequality in access to education and federally administered services is in large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573964
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Chapter 21. Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1885-1966). 2015
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail to be realized when democracy is captured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025324
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - This Version: March 27th, 2016
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/10011482260
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This Version: November 24th, 2015
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 benchmark version of the dataset presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409506
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)
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/10011453984
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andrew D.; … - 2015
After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528633
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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa : evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania
Vivien Houngbonon, Georges; Bauer, Arthur; N'Diaye, … - 2014
In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410852