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Conventionally, benefit-cost analysis focuses on economic efficiency, summing the values of a policy’s costs and benefits based on the preferences of those affected. There is widespread agreement that it should be supplemented with information on how the impacts are distributed across...
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examine risk factors associated with inequality. Design, setting and participants: Analysis of data from the World Development … Indicators 2003 database, compiled by the World Bank. Main outcome measures: Adult and child mortality among countries placed …
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Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … assistance. It endorses the more robust concept of ''human flourishing'' and the desire to live in a world where all people have …
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Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …
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economic globalization has led to an increase in the popularity of far-right parties. …
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have shared in the economic gains from globalization. Opponents in the debate differ in the extent to which they care about … greater scrutiny if the globalization debate is to move forward.This paper - product of the Poverty Team, Development Research … Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to contribute to the ongoing debate on globalization …
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We study economic globalization as a multidimensional process and investigate its effect on incomes. In a panel of 147 … countries during 1970-2014, we apply a new instrumental variable, exploiting globalization's geographically diffusive character …, and find differential gains from globalization both across and within countries: Income gains are substantial for …
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Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …
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superior ability in serving the differentiated and high-quality markets of the developed world …
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This paper provides a summary of information in the UTIP data set on the evolution of industrial earnings inequality in the global economy. At present the data set covers 66 countries, with annual observations going back to 1972 in most cases and to 1963 in many. Our measure of changing...
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