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International convergence or higher inequality in human development? Evidence for 1975 to 2002

Noorbakhsh, Farhad - 2006

amongst developing countries but a slight reduction in world inequality. The dynamics of regional analysis reveal a movement …

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Health improvements and health inequality during the last 40 years

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Menchini, Leonardo - 2006

This paper juxtaposes changes over the last forty years in income growth and distribution with the mortality changes recorded at the aggregate level in about 170 countries and at the individual level in 26 countries with at least two demographic and health surveys covering the last twenty years....

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Income-based measures of average well-being

Dowrick, Steve - 2004

-expectancy with income comparisons, and shows that the fixed-price indexes of real income, such as those in the Penn World Table …

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Patterns of rent-extraction and deployment in developing countries: Implications for governance, economic policy and performance

Auty, Richard M. - 2006

Rents tend to be relatively high in developing countries and also very fungible, so that differences in the scale of the rent and in its distribution among economic agents profoundly affect the nature of the political state and the development trajectory. This paper identifies two basic...

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Global inequality: Recent evidence and trends

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Prasada Rao, D. S.; … - 2007

recent country level data on income distribution drawn from World Bank and UNU-WIDER studies for the period 1993-2000. The …

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The relationship between income inequality, poverty, and globalization

Heshmati, Almas - 2005

This paper introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalization and show how globalization has developed over time for different...

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Estimating the level and distribution of global household wealth

Davies, James B.; Sandström, Susanna; Shorrocks, Anthony; … - 2007

wealth for 20 countries, accounting for 59 per cent of the world’s population and, we estimate, 84 per cent of its wealth are …

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Intergenerational effects in the diffusion of new technology: The case of mobile phones

Liikanen, Jukka; Stoneman, Paul; Toivanen, Otto - 2002

Many new technologies exhibit clear generational changes. The empirical literature on technology diffusion traditionally analyses the spread of new technologies generically. We use data from the mobile phone industry, where first-generation (1G) and second-generation technologies (2G) can be...

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Competing through cooperation: Standard setting in wireless telecommunications

Leiponen, Aija - 2006

consortia are highlighted. The empirical context is Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an international standards …

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Will the euro eventually surpass the dollar as leading international reserve currency?

Chinn, Menzie; Frankel, Jeffrey - 2006

Might the dollar eventually follow the precedent of the pound and cede its status as leading international reserve … the world's central banks. Significant factors include: size of the home country, inflation rate (or lagged depreciation … foreign exchange market). We have not found that net international debt position is an important determinant. Network …

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