Search Results - subject:"Growth and Inequality"

Financial Intermediation and Costly Technology Adoption under Uncertainty: A Political Economy Perspective

Chinzara, Ziv; Lahiri, Radhika - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2012

We develop a stochastic political economy model to explain the trade-off between growth and inequality during the … growth and inequality. Finally, our results show that although the political outcomes do not coincide with the welfare … and inequality converge towards the steady state paths, while low inequality result in more fluctuations in transitional …

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In search of a strategy for making growth more pro-poor in the Philippines

Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Balisacan, Arsenio M.; Bresciani, Fabrizio - 2011

The main driver of poverty reduction has shifted from agricultural to non-agricultural income growth in rural Philippines in the past two decades. Agricultural growth is still relatively more important (vis-à-vis non-agricultural growth), however, in reducing rural poverty in relatively more...

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In Search of a Strategy for Making Growth More Pro-Poor in the Philippines

Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Balisacan, Arsenio M.; Bresciani, Fabrizio - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2011

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Growth and inequality: Access to advanced education under credit constraint

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien - 2009

This Master thesis starts by reviewing a wide strand of the literature about the linkage between growth and inequality …

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Does Inequality Matter for Poverty Reduction? Evidence from Pakistan’s Poverty Trends

Jamal, Haroon - In: The Pakistan Development Review 45 (2006) 3, pp. 439-459

The paper explores the linkages between poverty, growth and inequality in the context of Pakistan. Time series macro … estimation of poverty elasticity with respect to growth and inequality in a multivariate regression framework. The paper also …

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Economic growth and contraction and their impact on the poor

Inder, Brett - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2004

This paper considers the relationship between growth in real per capita GDP and the growth in real per capita GDP of the poorest 20% of a country. It uses the data set compiled by Dollar and Kraay (2002), but come to very different conclusions. We argue that if the purpose is to answer questions...

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Growth and Inequality: Model Evaluation Based on an Estimation-Calibration Strategy

Jeong, Hyeok; Townsend, Robert M. - Institute of Economic Policy Research (IEPR), … - 2003

distinct models yield specific suggestions for improved research on the micro foundations of growth and inequality. … and inequality change. Both models capture important features of Thai reality. Anomalies and comparisons across the two … model economies at those micro-fit parameter estimates can explain the observed macro and sectoral aspects of income growth …

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Child Labor and the Education of a Society

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The existence of multiple steady states is established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work...

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Child labor and the education of a society

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001

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Satiation and Underdevelopment

Funk, Peter - University of Bonn, Germany - 1994

In this article we show how absolute poverty and per capita growth can be sustained simultaneously in a fully integrated world economy even in the absence of population growth. In contrast to the literature we use a model of endogenously sustained growth in which not only the intensity of...

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