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Macroeconomic Policies, Growth, Employment, and Inequality in Latin America

Damill, Mario; Frenkel, Roberto - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...

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When Unstable,Growth is Less Pro-Poor

Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachai, Catherine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...

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Concepts and Operationalization of Pro-Poor Growth

Negre, Mario - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should dispropo

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Income, Income Inequality, and Health: Evidence from China

Li, Hongbin; Zhu, Yi - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the … inverted-U association between self-reported health status and income inequality, which suggests that high inequality in a … community poses threats to health. We also find that high inequality increases the probability of health-compromising behavior …

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Indicators of Inequality and Poverty

Subramanian, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz … curve); real-valued indices of inequality; properties of inequality indices; some specific inequality measures; and the …

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Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in China 1995-2002

Li, Shi; Zhao, Renwei - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth...

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