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Chapter 9. Recent Trends in Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries

Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 697-805). 2015

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …

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Growth with redistribution, finally : Regional poverty and inequality in the Philippines, 2000-2018

Capuno, Joseph J. - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-15

While the poverty reductions in the Philippines in 2012–2018 are modest compared to what Vietnam, China or Indonesia … decomposition of poverty and inequality in 2000–2018 using official national household surveys. We find the growth since 2012 …, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas …

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Mobile money innovations, income inequality and gender inclusion in subSaharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Agyemang-Mintah, Peter; Nnanna, Joseph; … - 2023

The study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1980 to 2019 using interactive quantile regressions. The following findings are established. First, income inequality unconditionally reduces the...

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Mobile money innovations, income inequality and gender inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Agyemang-Mintah, Peter; Nnanna, Joseph; … - In: Financial innovation : FIN 10 (2024), pp. 1-21

This study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019 using interactive quantile regressions. It fnds that, frst, income inequality unconditionally reduces the involvement of women in business and...

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Intrahousehold Inequality

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...

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On data and trends in horizontal inequality

Canelas, Carla - 2022

Economic, social, and political inequalities are at the forefront of today's public debate. While governments around the world have made conscious efforts to promote social inclusion, and major progress in fulfilling basic needs has been witnessed during the last decades, certain groups of...

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Changes in inequality within countries after 1990

Gradín, Carlos - 2020

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries since around 1990. We cope with the heterogeneity in the original information (regarding the measure of resources, equivalence scale, etc.) by focusing on the trends rather than on...

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Horizontal inequality and data challenges

Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018

Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development....

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Legal empowerment and group-based inequality

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018

Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and …

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Distributional analysis of the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation in the health gradient measured by biomarkers

Sinha, Kompal; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M.; … - 2018

This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation. Adopting a holistic approach to multidimensional deprivation, we construct measures of absolute and relative deprivation and use these measures...

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