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Development aid and policy discussions often assume that poorer countries have less internal capacity for redistribution in favor of their poorest citizens. The assumption is tested using data for 90 developing countries. The capacity for redistribution is measured by the marginal tax rate on...
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dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … mild, but exhibit a strong regional pattern. Inequality is likely to fall in regions such as Latin America, which are … characterized by high initial inequality, and rise in regions like South Asia, characterized by low initial inequality. …
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Income inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and … most important factors explaining overall inequality are differential returns to schooling and sector of employment. A … carried out during the last 25 years. The authors argue that rising income inequality can be part of a normal process of …
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percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …
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Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact...
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Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of...
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According to global spatial data sets in 2000 more than one-third of the rural population in developing countries was located on less favored agricultural land and areas. Less favored agricultural lands are susceptible to low productivity and degradation, because their agricultural potential is...
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This paper analyzes poverty in Haiti based on the first Living Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole country and representative at the regional level. Using a USD1 a day extreme poverty line, the analysis reveals that 49 percent of Haitian households live in absolute poverty....
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realize the growth potential of trade, while limiting the risk of rising inequality, policies need to better account for …
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Concerns have been raised about the impact of rising food prices worldwide on the poor. To assess the (short term) impact of rising food prices in any particular country it is necessary to look at both the impact on food producers (who benefit from an increase in prices) and food consumers (who...
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