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Governance Indicators, Aid Allocation, and the Millennium Challenge Account

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart - EconWPA - 2004

Aid works best when it is directed to countries with relatively good institutions and policies. But how should good governance be measured, and how can aid allocation rules be designed in light of the strengths and weaknesses of existing measures? We address in brief a number of methodological...

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The Political Economy of Redistribution Under Asymmetric Information

Dhami, Sanjit - EconWPA - 2001

"inter term tax variability" (political budget cycles) during the tenure of a politician. The effect of inequality on the …

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A Dynamic Approach to the Relationship between Inequality, Social Capital and Institutions

Caramuta, Diego - EconWPA - 2005

One of the main objectives of this paper is to show the dynamics that relates inequality, social capital and … of equilibria: one with a low level of social capital and high level of inequality, supported by institutions created … endogenously by the community; and on the other hand, an equilibrium with a high level of social capital, low inequality and …

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Poverty and Inequality in Rural Assam An Indicative Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision, Assam (India)

Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005

This study is based on primary data collected from randomly chosen 182 households inhabiting seven sample villages in the Udalguri subdivision, Assam (india). It indicates that at least 35.85 percent of the population (and 33.52 percent of households) in the sample villages is below poverty line...

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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)

Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005

In this study we make an attempt to visualize the structure of the economy of Udalguri Subdivision of Assam, India. The structure of an economy comprises the characteristic features of and the interrelationships among its constituent parts and subsystems. These characteristic features and...

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Understanding Changes in Mâori Incomes and Income Inequality 1997-2003

Dixon, Sylvia; Maré, David C - EconWPA - 2005

of approximately $550 per week. Income inequality within the total working-aged Mâori population declined, while income … inequality among employed Mâori was stable. An analysis of some of the key factors contributing to change in the income …

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The Two Faces of Knowledge Diffusion: the Chilean Case

Morone, Piergiuseppe - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyses the dynamics of return to knowledge where knowledge is acquired through the combination of interactive and individual learning. We suggest that in light of this new definition of knowledge, choosing the optimal level of education is no longer an individual exercise of present...

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Inequality, Productivity, and Child Labor

Rogers, Carol Ann; Swinnerton, Kenneth A. - EconWPA - 1999

We extend the “general model” in Basu and Van (1998) to allow for different types of hosueholds, and extend the model in Swinnerton and Rogers (1999) to allow for a more general utility function. Our new findings are (i) while in some contexts, a more equal income distribution can reduce or...

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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence

Milanovic, Branko; Squire, Lyn - EconWPA - 2005

inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two … large data bases of wage inequality that have become recently available and a large dataset of average tariff rates all …-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer countries. The results for inter …

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Marginal commodity tax reforms: a survey

Santoro, Alessandro - EconWPA - 2005

We summarize the main features and results of the literature on marginal commodity tax reforms as initiated by Ahmad and Stern (1984) and developed further by Yitzhaki and Thirsk (1990). We establish new links with other fields of research, namely the literature on the use of equivalence scales...

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