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required to allow for poverty reduction. We first present the economic policies of the following periods and their impacts on … that can lead Brazil towards a faster and more equitable growth and rapid poverty reduction. We conclude presenting the …
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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive ones disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time. Although income distribution worsened notably in the 1970s-80s, a significant improvement was recorded in the first half of the 1990s, resulting from better economic and...
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indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …
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What accounts for the rise in income inequality since the 1970s? According to most economists, the answer lies in structural changes in the economy - in particular, technological changes that have raised the demand for highly skilled workers and thereby boosted their pay. Opposing this...
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inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries.Such a cumulative process shapes …
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Income distribution in the Philippines is highly uneven, and poverty rates are higher than in other ASEAN countries. In … addition, although the poverty rate has declined over time, the rate of decline has been lower than in other countries, and …
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