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economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …
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Despite extensive research, there is still controversy on the effects of income inequality on economic growth. The … different forms of inequality. However, empirical studies have generally not distinguished between these channels, nor have … their analyses included a consideration of the two forms of inequality and their separate effects on growth. In this paper …
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This paper develops a framework which analyzes how a population's culture affects the decisions of rational profit maximizing firms, while simultaneously exploring how the actions of these firms in turn affect the population's culture.By endogenizing culture as well as the more usual economic...
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light on the dynamic causality relationship and impact channel between economic growth and inequality - using vector error … inequality, renewed attention should be paid to curbing inequality. Those economies experiencing inclusive growth can further … promote growth with less risk of sacrificing equity. This also provides useful implications for development interventions …
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The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
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The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333709
light on the dynamic causality relationship and impact channel between economic growth and inequality - using vector error … inequality, renewed attention should be paid to curbing inequality. Those economies experiencing inclusive growth can further … promote growth with less risk of sacrificing equity. This also provides useful implications for development interventions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432866
been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
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, as we explain below. Finally, the relationship between remittances and inequality appears to be non …-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440672