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Twinning the goals : how can promoting shared prosperity help to reduce global poverty ?

Lakner, Christoph; Negre, Mario; Prydz, Espen Beer - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote shared prosperity defined as the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population within a country. This paper simulates the global poverty headcount under three growth...

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Economic Growth

CROIX, David de la - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...

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Las desigualdades intrarregionales y la reducción de la pobreza en la región Chorotega

Sauma, Pablo - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 29 (2011) 01

Entre 1994 y 2009 la región Chorotega mostró una importante reducción en la incidencia de la pobreza vista como una situación de ingresos insuficientes. No obstante, esa incidencia sigue siendo una de las más elevadas entre las regiones del país. A partir de la utilización de una serie de...

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Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth : is there a middle income trap ?

Bulman, David; Eden, Maya; Nguyen, Ha - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Is there a"middle income trap"? Theory suggests that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels may be different. If countries struggle to transition from growth strategies that are effective at low income levels to growth strategies that are effective at high income levels, they...

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Income inequality and health: Evidence from developed and developing countries

Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …

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Relative income, network interactions and social stigma

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2010

on blood donation than community-specific inequality. …

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Wealth inequality in Europe and the delusive egalitarianism of Scandinavian countries

Skopek, Nora; Buchholz, Sandra; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role … the distribution of wealth between European countries, and (2) that patterns of wealth inequality differ strongly from … patterns of income inequality. Surprisingly high levels of wealth disparity were found in the social democratic welfare regimes …

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Publishing Trends in Economics across Colleges and Universities, 1991-2007

Winkler, Anne E.; Levin, Sharon; Stephan, Paula; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and new information technologies have changed the way academic knowledge is produced and exchanged....

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

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Escaping the resource curse in regional development: a case study on the allocation of oil royalties

Rocchi, Benedetto; Landi, Chiara; Stefani, Gianluca; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 18 (2015) 1/2, pp. 115-138

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the socio-economic impact of the allocation of royalties from oil extraction on regional development through a case study on the Basilicata region (Italy). We examine how the regional government's chosen policies have impacted the income of Basilicata...

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