This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory … associated with various measures of income inequality. This negative association is robust to alternative firm-level capital …

in global miserliness over the last 30 years. -- Miser index ; poverty ; affluence ; inequality ; development …In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

transfers that do not include pensions, exert a prominent impact on inequality and poverty. Also significant is the effect of … the GDP per capita. The impact of employment on inequality and poverty is not empirically sound. The same holds for the …Employing panel data techniques, we investigate the macroeconomic and institutional determinants of inequality and …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and 'inequality' and …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …

practice. The results show that despite different fiscal effects, policies overall mostly reduced poverty and inequality and …, but generally also contributed more to poverty and inequality reduction than structural policy reforms. …

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory … associated with various measures of income inequality. This negative association is robust to alternative firm-level capital …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen … million less poor people in 1998 than there were in the 70s. We estimate global income inequality using seven different …, the Theil index and the coefficient of variation. All indexes show a reduction in global income inequality between 1980 …

means of poverty reduction and argues that the poverty impact of distributional change is so minor that it can be neglected … maintained their most equitable income distribution of the past few decades, the global poverty headcount could have been reduced … from 1.2 billion to around 900 million. When the growth effects of lower inequality are incorporated into the model, the …