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project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts …India today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also … accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality. We report on a research …
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-weighted Theil index to measure inequality and technique of its decomposition to evaluate the contribution of various sources to … inter-regional inequality for various sources of incomes. Decomposition of inter-regional income inequality demonstrated the … sources. We suggest that income sources contribute differently to overall inequality. Some of them, e.g. property incomes …
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produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set …
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-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …
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-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …
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Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income elasticity for the low income group? This paper examines this issue using large representative sample...
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Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …
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land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …
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intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable …
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Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income elasticity for the low income group? This paper examines this issue using large representative sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762136