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-growth story.  While in the majority of countries, growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …
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Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both … poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty …
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This paper gives a selected review of some of the work on poverty mobility, largely based on recent research. The … allow movement out of poverty. For urban areas, location and access to particular types of jobs appears to matter. The paper … revisits this evidence. However, in analyzing poverty mobility, it is not self-evident to move from describing the correlates …
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Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. This … paper, we introduce a concept of vulnerability, as a threat of poverty, with downside risk at its core. More specifically …, we define a vulnerability measure as an assessment of the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before …
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rise in inequality of income that occured in Chine over those seven years. The Gini coefficient of household income per … for the rise in inequality are economic growth and economic transition. …
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This paper attempts to analyse certain significant aspects of increasing income inequality in China in the nineteen …
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Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both … poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051086
We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset …-mining sectors of the economy.  We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality.  In contrast, overall … growth and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality.  We also identify growth acceleration …
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This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years …, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to …
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Arguments for cross-disciplinary research in development studies have been applied recently to work on poverty …, inequality and well-being. However, much research on these issues remains fragmented and, in particular, the intellectual barrier … collection and explain their relationship to the quest for crossdisciplinary research on poverty issues. Our conclusion is that …
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