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Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …
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Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305923
This study examines two multilateral initiatives, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Compact. These are two efforts to engage transnational corporations in the development process and in the...
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) transport and communications, (6) inequality across class and gender, and (7) ?bads.? With a SUR estimator in levels, income per …
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Knowing whether corruption leads to higher emigration rates - and among which groups - is important because most labor emigration is from developing to developed countries. If corruption leads highly-skilled and highlyeducated workers to leave developing countries, it can result in a shortage of...
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obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
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conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues considered are the space in which gender inequality in well … measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is necessarily the … goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of agency …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
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and income inequality, is hard to find. Motivated by the bleak outlook of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region … analyse the poverty and income inequality effects of globalisation and resource allocation in the region. Using data from the … that: (1) while economic globalisation reduces both poverty and income inequality, social globalisation matters only for …
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