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Extractives for development : ten main messages
Addison, Tony; Roe, Alan - 2018
be associated with acute social inequality and deep poverty. Many countries struggle to diversify their economies, and …
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Global boom, local impacts : mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007 - 2011
Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - 2014
of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …
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Moving to Economic Opportunity : The Migration Response to the Fracking Boom
Wilson, Riley - 2017
Localized hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) booms in the United States present a unique opportunity to explore migration responses to positive labor demand shocks in the current context of low geographic mobility. Using data from 1999 to 2013, I show that fracking led to large increases in...
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From deprivation to distribution : is global poverty becoming a matter of national inequality?
Sumner, Andrew - 2012
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Is it really possible for countries to simultaneously grow and reduce poverty and inequality? : going beyond global narratives
Cuesta, José; Negre, Mario; Revenga, Ana; … - In: Oxford development studies 48 (2020) 3, pp. 256-270
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Resource Booms, Growth and Poverty in Laos : What Can We Learn from Other Countries and Policy Simulations?
Kyophilavong, Phouphet - 2018
framework to quantify the impacts of resource booms on the macro economy and on poverty in Laos using a computable general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938187
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Resource Booms, Growth and Poverty in Laos : What Can We Learn from Other Countries and Policy Simulations?
Kyophilavong, Phouphet - 2018
framework to quantify the impacts of resource booms on the macro economy and on poverty in Laos using a computable general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914878
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The empirics of agglomeration economies
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent - 2014
We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and aggregate empirical specifications. We gradually introduce static effects, dynamic effects, and...
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More pensioners, less income inequality? : the impact of changing age composition on inequality in big cities and elsewhere
Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, Dave C.; Poot, Jacques - 2017
distribution of personal income to better understand urban area-level income inequality (measured by the Mean Log Deviation index …. Population ageing can have important effects on the distribution of personal income within and between urban areas. The age … structure of the population may affect the distribution of income through the life-cycle profile of earnings but also through …
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