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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of … between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that …

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Happiness and economic growth: does the cross section predict time trends? ; evidence from developing countries

Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - 2009

Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...

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Happiness and growth the world over: time series evidence on the happiness-income paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - 2009

There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...

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Does the liberalization of trade advance gender equality in schooling and health?

Schultz, T. Paul - 2006

This paper assesses the empirical relationship between the liberalization of international trade and the economic status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent country studies find export led growth in middle and low...

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Child labor and trade liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2009

We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...

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The social impact of globalization in the developing countries

Lee, Eddy; Vivarelli, Marco - 2006

other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world … and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. …

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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty

Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles - 2005

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

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