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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence

Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012

maintaining moderate inflation, the rate of investment; aggressive effort at domestic resource mobilisation; and structural change …

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Székely, Miguel; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2000

, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these two regions at the micro level using synthetic cohort techniques …

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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America

Cuesta, Jose; Ñopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2007

This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...

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Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2012

In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...

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What's Behind the Inequality we Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - 1999

The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This work relies on household surveys from 18 LAC countries to take a step back from the use of these indicators, and explore what`s behind the numbers, and what information they...

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The evolution of the Middle Class in Latin America

Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2014

Latin American countries have always been characterised by relatively high levels of income inequality, even taking into account their degree of economic development. If such 'excess inequality' is combined with the fact that these are mostly middle-income and low-income countries, it can be...

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Austerity

Dellas, Harris; Niepelt, Dirk - 2014

more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …

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What happened to the knowledge economy? ICT, intangible investment and Britain's productivity record revisited

Marrano, Mauro Giorgio; Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2007

appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … as intermediate consumption. Thus they do not count as either GDP or investment. We ask how treating such spending as … investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and …

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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009

disincentive effect on human capital investment, works strongly against another weak segment of society - the local unskilled. This …

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Post-1500 population flows and the long run determinants of economic growth and inequality

Putterman, Louis; Weil, David N. - 2008

We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality...

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