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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers

Halac, Marina - 2003

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Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam

Wagstaff, Adam - 2005

devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …

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Global redistribution of income

Bourguignon, François - 2006

with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …

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Local inequality and project choice : theory and evidence from Ecuador

Araujo, María Caridad - 2006

"This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model...

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Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...

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Poverty traps and nonlinear income dynamics with measurement error and individual heterogeneity

Antman, Francisca M. - 2005

"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can...

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Equity, welfare, and the setting of trade policy in general equilibrium

Francois, Joseph F. - 2005

"The authors analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. They embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions...

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The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies : a review of modeling approaches

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005

"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....

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Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income

Korinek, Anton - 2005

"The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U...

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Equitable provision of long-term public goods : the role of negotiation mandates

Hourcade, Jean-Charles - 2003

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