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between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …
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inequality: Thus there is a new approach for explaining Piketty's historical findings of a medium term rise of the capital income …
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Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in...
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global …. China's rapid economic growth is by far the most important factor underlying almost all of them, notwithstanding sharply …
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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 threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household disposable income data from the Household Budget Survey to calculate...
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Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …
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What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are … predominantly attributable to rising prosperity in China. We also identify a persistent global structure of two relatively …
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signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …
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end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously …. Inequality and group income are positively correlated for poor groups, but negatively correlated for rich groups. There is very … strong path dependence: inequality in early periods is strongly negatively correlated with group income in later periods …
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