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The changing shape of global inequality 1820 - 2000 : exploring a new dataset
Zanden, Jan Luiten van; Baten, Jörg; Földvári, Péter; … - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 279-297
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457476
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Economic development and sub-regional identities
Zeaiter, Hussein F.; El Khalil, Raed; Fakih, Khodr - In: The journal of developing areas 49 (2015) 1, pp. 157-176
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280738
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
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Kuznets curves stratified by mean per capita income, 1969 - 2007 : implications regarding global economic development and income inequality
Riggs, Jack E.; Hobbs, Jeffrey C.; Hobbs, Gerald R.; … - In: Modern economy 3 (2012) 5, pp. 617-625
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To what extent is the institutional environment responsible for worldwide differences in economic development
Próchniak, Mariusz - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 17-38
differences in economic development among the countries of the world. According to the institutions-augmented Solow model, the …
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Well-being and economic development : a principal components analysis
Wong, Kin-ming - In: International journal of happiness and development 1 (2013) 2, pp. 131-141
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197606
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The ARDL test of Gender Kuznets Curve for G7 countries
Kılınç, Dilara; Onater, Esra; Yetkiner, Hakan - 2013
The Gender Kuznets Curve (GKC) hypothesis argues that economic development has a non-linear effect on the female share of workers. There is, however, growing debate on the exact shape of this non-linear relationship. The aim of this paper is to test the GKC hypothesis in order to determine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126816
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The poor, the prosperous and the 'inbetweeners' : a fresh perspective on global society, inequality and growth
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andrew - 2014
whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251665
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Do economic, financial and institutional developments matter for environmental degradation? : evidence from transitional economies
Tamazian, Artur; Bhaskara Rao, Buddhavarapu - 2009
Several studies have examined the relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth. However, most of them did not take into account financial developments and institutional quality. Moreover, Stern (2004) noted that there are important econometric weaknesses in the earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523651
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Why do some oil-producing countries succeed in democracy while others fail?
Omgba, Luc Désiré - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 76 (2015), pp. 180-189
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