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Growth and inequality examined by integrating the Walrasian general equilibrium and neoclassical growth theories
Zhang, Wei-Bin - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 7 (2014) 1, pp. 7-32
heterogeneity. The wealth and income inequality is due to household heterogeneity in preferences and human capital as well as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310266
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A note on poverty, inequality and growth
Korres, George; Marmaras, Emmanuel; Tsobanoglou, George - 2004
How inequality is generated and how it reproduces over time? This has been a major concern of social scientists for … the only one. There is an increasing “inequality” throughout the world. Over the period 1960-2000, the richest 5 % of the … education, and there is an intimate connection between nutrition and poverty. The measurement of inequality is a highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318991
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Billions on the sidewalk: Improving savings by reducing investment mistakes
Panizza, Ugo - 2015
This paper contributes the on-going debate on income inequality in advanced economies with a proposal aimed at reducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381194
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The global consumption and income project: An introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2015
consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418574
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Ghana: Poverty reduction over thirty years
McKay, Andy; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015
period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418585
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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship
Leyaro, Vincent - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … inequality can be considered a proxy for 'governance quality', the paper also tests for a threshold in inequality for the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418593
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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - 2015
After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418641
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Mozambique: Off-track or temporarily sidelined?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
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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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
Addison, John T. - 2015
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420762
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Trends in Household Vulnerability
Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Ramos, Andre Philippe - 2010
This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421166