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into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …
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This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the...
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speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …
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, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …
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Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …
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households to smaller eligible ones. A sharp decline in inequality is observed in the entire study population: the Gini index …
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