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’s main goal is poverty reduction, not economic growth. In this paper, aid’s impact on poverty, growth, and inequality are …
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To shed lights on growth, distribution and the relationships between the two, we develop a growth model with heterogeneous individuals who care about social status. Individuals' heterogeneity stems from two sources: their innate skills and their degree of ambition. While the willingness of...
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findings indicate that increases in national income have a significant moderating effect on income inequality: a one percent … could help reduce income inequality. …
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We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset …-mining sectors of the economy.  We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality.  In contrast, overall … growth and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality.  We also identify growth acceleration …
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strengthened by the household registration (Hukou) system in China. Chinese economy, as well as its income inequality, rose … dramatically in last decades. Most researches show that urban-rural disparity is an important source of income inequality. In this …
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In this paper we review the structure of tax systems in Latin America and analyze their impact on the real economy-- economic growth, macro-economic stability, income redistribution and foreign direct investment--, and on the extent of informality –the size of the shadow economy—and ‘tax...
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explores the relationship between income growth and income inequality using data at the municipal level in Sweden for the … period 1992-2007. We estimate a fixed effects panel data growth model, where the within-municipality income inequality is one … of the explanatory variables. Different inequality measures (Gini coefficient, top income shares, and measures of …
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-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …
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