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Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - 1999

This paper, prepared for the Handbook of Income Distribution (edited by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon), reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for, politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential...

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Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?

Gasparini, Leonardo; Horenstein, Matías; Olivieri, Sergio - 2006

This document presents and discusses an extensive set of statistics aimed at characterizing the degree of economic polarisation in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The study is based on a dataset of household surveys from 21 LAC countries in the period 1989-2004. Latin America...

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Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?

Gasparini, Leonardo; Horenstein, Matías; Olivieri, Sergio - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2006

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Market, Social Cohesion, and Democracy

Ocampo, José Antonio - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2006

This paper offers three guiding principles for a better relationship between the economy and democracy: democracy as the extension of citizenship; democracy as diversity; and democracy as complementary to clear, strong macroeconomic rules. This view, it is argued, implies that economic and...

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A Comparison of Income and Expenditure Inequality Estimates: the Australian Evidence, 1975/76 to 1993/94.

Blacklow, P.; Ray, R. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 1999

1993/94. The study finds inconsistencies between the two inequality movements over much of this period. We, also, observe …

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Absolute or relative : perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique

Barletta, Giulia; Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2023

Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to … increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their … believe that inequality in their neighbourhood is too high and that circumstances beyond their control explain why some people …

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Subjective economic welfare: Beyond growth.

Giarrizzo, Victoria - In: Economía 34 (2009) 28, pp. 9-34

It is common that economists are used to establish a direct relationship between growth and welfare. Nevertheless, the link among these variables not always is so virtuous. This suspicion went in the last years to investigating about the perception of people on your proper welfare. The slogan...

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Poverty and Permanent Income : A Methodology for Cross-Section Data

NAGA, Ramses H. ABUL; BOLZANI, Enrico - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2000

If the set of households which are income poor does not fully overlap with the set of the consumption poor, it could well be that income and consumption expenditure convey different information regarding an unobserved variable on the basis of which families allocate their resources...

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Adjustment and Distribution: The Indian Experience.

Mundle, S.; Tulasidhar, V.B. - Asian Development Bank - 1998

This paper attempts to assess the distributive impact of the economic adjustment program in India. It begins by discussing the analytical complexities of disentangling the impact of reforms from that of other autonomous developments in the economy. It then goes on to isolate and analyze the main...

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How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?

Castañeda, R. Andrés; Garriga, Santiago; Gasparini, … - 2018

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin … America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate …. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 …

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