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inequality during the 1990s, and performs an analysis of the effect of economic reforms on inequality and poverty by using an … inequality declined during the 1990s. Poverty declined in 10 or 11 out of the 17 countries for which household surveys are … available to us, depending on the poverty measured used. Persistently high inequality inhibited further poverty reduction. One …
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provide a survey demonstrating that, from a theoretical point of view, a decrease in inequality has an uncertain impact on the … examine specifically the effect of inequality on the extent of local pollution (sulphur dioxide emissions and organic water …
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This paper characterizes Singapore's efforts to tackle the problem of persistent racial inequality in terms of the …
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Racial inequality remains a substantial problem in American society. Competing explanations of African American - white … inequality often overlap but they are often also quite contentious. Recent empirical studies on the role of race and labor have … political ideology masquerading as science. So-called pre-labor market inequality, which may also be summarized as the class and …
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The increase in inequality after the 1960s was due to substitution of capital and of skilled labor for unskilled labor …
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household surveys are used to analyse agricultural inequality using various decomposition techniques. It is found that …
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This article reviews evidence on intergenerational social mobility in Latin America. Results indicate that mobility is low in the region, even when compared with the United States and United Kingdom, which rank low on social mobility. The evidence also suggests high levels of immobility at the...
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) resource abundance increases the inequality of income distribution within a country and (ii) higher income inequality reduces … resource abundance on human development after controlling for inequality, institutional quality, and the level of per …
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В статье представлены данные о неравенстве доходов населения в России. Сделано сопоставление данных о доходах населения в различных странах. Предложены меры по...
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1994 to 2005, i.e., a pro-poor growth accompanied by increased inequality. Our results are robust to the use of the four …
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