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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Hufe, Paul - 2018

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

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Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries

Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2022

The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing evidence that the competitive labor markets assump- tion is not valid for...

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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty

Chau, Nancy H. - 2015

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...

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Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness

Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare interpretation has been criticized for a long time on the...

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Cities, Towns, and Poverty : Migration Equilibrium and Income Distribution in a Todaro-Type Model with Multiple Destinations

Christiaensen, Luc - 2017

poverty outcomes are not immune to whether urban employment generation takes place in the towns or the city …Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty … poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an equilibrium phenomenon. We then address the policy question and …

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The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined...

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Structural Transformation and Income Distribution : Kuznets and Beyond

Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

framework can be used, for example, in predicting the differential relationship between urbanization and inequality in India …

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A Theory of Employment Guarantees : Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Basu, Arnab K. - 2007

Both raw intuition and past experience suggest that the success of an employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in safeguarding … efficiency improving and poverty alleviating policy reform in a canonical labor market setting. At its core, an EGS provides an … aggregate, not just EGS, employment target. Given the target, the EGS wage and access can be fine-tuned to deliver outcomes …

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The Global Inequality Boomerang

Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andy - 2022

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...

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