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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition
Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Jos - 2013
The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...
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Fiscal Decentralization and Fiscal Performance
Shah, Anwar - 2012
decentralization is associated with improved fiscal performance and better functioning of internal common markets. Fiscal policy … discipline. Fiscal decentralization poses significant challenges for macroeconomic management. These challenges require careful …
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On the Measurement and Impact of Fiscal Decentralization
Ebel, Robert D.; Yilmaz, Serdar - 2013
important to achieve in development objectives is changing as fiscal decentralization reforms are being pursued by many … countries around the world. In this context, a number of studies have attempted to quantify the impact of decentralization by … decentralization is surprisingly difficult to measure. Nearly all cases examining the relationship between decentralization and …
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Global Poverty and Inequality : A Review of the Evidence
Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
Drawing on a compilation of data from household surveys representing 130 countries, many over a period of 25 years, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the negative correlations between both poverty and inequality...
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Hunting for Leopards : Long Run Country Income Dynamics in Africa
Arbache, Jorge Saba; Page, John - 2012
This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. They analyze changes in cross-country income structure and convergence, and look for evidence of...
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What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America?
Acosta, Pablo; Calder??n, Cesar; Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2012
Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have...
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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Disparities During China's Economic Reform
Dollar, David - 2012
China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of...
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A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique - 2012
This paper shows how differences in aggregate human development outcomes over time and space can be additively decomposed into a pure economic-growth component, a component attributed to differences in the distribution of income, and components attributed to "non-income" factors and differences...
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Global Growth and Distribution : Are China and India Reshaping the World?
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
Over the past 20 years, aggregate measures of global inequality have changed little even if significant structural changes have been observed. High growth rates of China and India lifted millions out of poverty, while the stagnation in many African countries caused them to fall behind. Using the...
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A Normal Relationship? Poverty, Growth, and Inequality
Lopez, J. Humberto; Serv??n, Luis - 2012
Using a large cross-country income distribution dataset spanning close to 800 country-year observations from industrial and developing countries, the authors show that the size distribution of per capita income is well approximated empirically by a lognormal density. The 0 hypothesis that per...
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