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The paper examines changes in the extent of poverty in Iran in the period 1983 to 1993. More specifically, it … investigates the contributions of growth and redistribution factors to changes in poverty over this period of ten years. The … increased significantly. Decomposition of changes in poverty into growth and redistribution components indicates that in each …
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This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...
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We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...
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