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, growth has been accompanied by substantial reduction in poverty, albeit increasing inequality. This development is explained …
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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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across G20 economies and its far-reaching implications for economic growth, productivity, inequality within and between …
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While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin … American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income …
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rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …
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The elimination of gender inequality in a society helps mitigate social tension and provide the sustainability of the … documents contain no provisions addressing the issue of gender inequality …
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Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …
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In this paper we study the impact of the income distribution on innovation through the demand for quality goods. For simplicity, we assume that there are two types of consumers, rich and poor. The income distribution is measured by the population share of the poor and the relative income of the...
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Empirical evidence on the relationship between a country?s wealth inequality and economic growth is ambiguous. This … research on the base of the Gini-coefficient cannot generate a general relationship between wealth inequality and economic … growth. Moreover, the impact of wealth inequality on economic growth is through the supply of human capital as well as the …
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In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily … decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and … then decrease growth as well as income inequality, when measured by the Gini coefficient. There is no clear functional …
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