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Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of well-defined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. And yet even in ostensibly peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an...
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GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- Stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the review, the paper identifies five areas that will command...
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This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of the National Sample Survey Office. We find that...
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The relationship between growth, inequality and poverty remains elusive, despite considerable scholarship. To what … extent can governments rely on growth to eradicate poverty without reducing inequality? We derive a closed-form relationship …-redistribution strategies to raise entire populations above the International Poverty Line ($1.90/day) by 2030, the Sustainable Development Goal …
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The relationship between growth, inequality and poverty remains elusive, despite considerable scholarship. To what … extent can governments rely on growth to eradicate poverty without reducing inequality? We derive a closed-form relationship …-redistribution strategies to raise entire populations above the International Poverty Line ($1.90/day) by 2030, the Sustainable Development Goal …
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