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Prevailing measures on the topics of monetary and non-monetary poverty-as well as economic and carbon inequality … poverty headcount ratio and the indices poverty gap, poverty severity, and Watts are assessed as core poverty indices. On the … detrimental ramifications on human wellbeing and disturbs public provision policies. Thus, poverty, inequality, and social …
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While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on...
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This study investigates the impact of financial inclusion on poverty, focusing on the role of unequal access to finance … and influence poverty in developing countries. This study applies two-stage fixed-effect methods and conditional analysis … to examine these issues. The results reveal that financial inclusion is more effective in poverty reduction in countries …
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This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the distribution of household welfare over both short-run and...
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Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …
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We consider an overlapping generations version of a model suggested by Fargione, Lehmann and Polasky that allows us to show, by means of simulations, that randomness of the rate of return on capital, combined with inheritance of capital and consumption being a concave function of wealth may lead...
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This paper develops a stock-flow consistent Post-Keynesian model in the Kalecki-Steindl tradition with endogenous wealth accumulation and distribution, which captures the key aspects of the Cambridge debate on (anti-)dual and Pasinetti equilibria. We find that a stable interior solution - that...
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How much wealth has accumulated in the region and how is it distributed across households? Despite being widely recognized for its extreme income inequality, reliable data on wealth is scarce, partial and oftentimes contradictory, making it difficult to an swer these ba sic qu estions. In this...
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Aim: Both the Keynesian and the Fisherian channels of sovereign money growth have slowed down significantly in the decade following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This, together with the rise of fintech, privately issued unbacked crypto-assets tried to fill this void. These developments have...
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This report provides key insights into the social exclusion processes that affect Roma and Egyptian communities in Albania - two of the most vulnerable minority communities in Albania. It offers advice on the design of concrete actions to facilitate the inclusion of Roma and Egyptian communities...
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