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Over the last decades, income inequality has increased globally. How do social policies affect this increasing trend …? How do international trade and technological progress affect inequality? What is the profile of income inequality in China …? Based on quantitative analyses of determinants of income inequality, this study provides a number of new insights into these …
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This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority of the global poor and it will hence have to play a...
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monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical and experimental …
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We provide three new empirical perspectives on inequality in the context of economic development, one focusing on … income inequality, and the remaining two on gender inequality. First, we jointly analyze the causal effects of geography …
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The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government expenditure in public services and infrastructure on different sectors of the population. Through three essays this dissertation pursues the objective by explicitly highlighting the...
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