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Income and consumption inequality in China: A comparative approach with India

Gradín, Carlos; Wu, Binbin - 2019

We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than expenditure in India, especially at the top of the...

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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022

Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...

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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022

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The Median Is the Message: A Good-Enough Measure of Material Well-Being and Shared Development Progress

Birdsall, Nancy; Meyer, Christian J. - 2014

We argue that survey-based median household consumption expenditure (or income) per capita be incorporated into … the denominator of various widely available indicators such as mean consumption expenditure per capita they provide a … “good-enough” indicator of consumption (or income) inequality. Finally, as a post-2015 indicator of progress at the country …

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Export Status and Productivity Performance: Evidence from Matched Italian Firms

Amendolagine, Vito; Capolupo, Rosa; Petragallo, Nadia - In: Aussenwirtschaft 66 (2011) 2, pp. 151-180

This paper explores the two competing hypotheses of self-selection and learning by exporting across different Italian manufacturing firms.Using matched sampling techniques that control for selection bias,we estimate whether new export-oriented firms aremore efficient compared to domestic firms...

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Restructuring of the international clothing and textile trade network : the role of Italy and Portugal

Schütz, Marlies Hanna; Palan, Nicole - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-29

Since the 1990s, the clothing and textile (C&T)-industry has been tremendously affected by changes in technology, trade costs, and the institutional environment. This paper studies the restructuring of C&T-trade from the perspective of Europe's two most prominent C&T-goods producing...

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Formalizing Informal Cross-Border Trade : Evidence From One-Stop-Border-Posts in Uganda

Siu, Jade - 2021

Informal trade is pervasive between sub-Saharan African countries. This study examines the relationship between trade informality and trade costs. More specifically, using an augmented gravity model, I exploit time and custom point variation in the introduction of a border facility which is...

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Export Status and Performance in a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms

Amendolagine, Vito; Capolupo, Rosa; Petragallo, Nadia - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2010

Following a growing literature we test, in this paper, the two alternative hypotheses of self selection and learning by exporting across different Italian manufacturing firms. Using matched sampling techniques, we estimate whether new export-oriented firms are more efficient than...

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"A Flop or a Success?" An Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of the 6-3-3-4 Education System in Nigeria

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2015

poverty likelihood and poverty gap, an increase in the probability of employment and an increase in wages. Our results provide … the old system. We also provide evidence of higher wages for select participants. We do not find any consistent evidence …

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The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

Barreto, Yuri; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2022

This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of...

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