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and wealth, including land, industrial or financial capital) across individuals as well as between the private and the … and development: wealth redistribution. The prevailing approach generally covers income redistribution and the provision … of public goods as a means to foster human capital accumulation (e.g., the MDGs approach), but it ignores wealth …
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We present empirical evidence on the business cycle relationship between nominal and real effective exchange rate, real GDP, consumption, investment, export, import and general government debt for a group of ten countries from the Central and Eastern Europe. We apply cross-correlation on...
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present cross-sectional dispersion earnings, consumption expenditure, and wealth inequalities from time-series and life cycle …
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subsidization will produce through the increase in jobs and consumers created. This creation of wealth by government will be a … process similar to the market's process of creating wealth through price fixing. …
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What is the 99% and why does it exist? In this paper an attempt is made to explain why socio-economic unrest remains a modern problem. An effort has to be made to understand the origins of strife in systemic design of modern economics. Without this knowledge it may not be possible to fix the...
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This paper examines the wealth of successive birth cohorts in the United States using data from the 1989-2001 Surveys … of Consumer Finances. We find that older households (those aged 55-64, 65-74 or 75-84) in 2001 had more wealth than …, these results raise some intriguing questions about the nature of saving and wealth accumulation during that decade. …
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With data for Portugal we propose an index of housing comfort based on the Household Budget Survey. This index covers housing and durable goods grouped in two dimensions: basic comfort and complementary comfort. Taking this index as starting point we make two contributions. First we quantify the...
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(Survey of Households’ Income and Wealth, SHIW) by the Bank of Italy. In particular, we combine information from the … allows to jointly analyze income, wealth and consumption distributions with a high degree of detail for both incomes … consumption income and wealth and to provide a basis for an integrated microsimulation analysis of direct, indirect and wealth tax …
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values devaluation), on the other hand. The theory allows the fallacy of identifying utility with wealth to be proved, for …
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capital, one could then assess whether Vietnam is on a sustainable development path by monitoring the value of its wealth …
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