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procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … inequality in urban India is mostly due to rising inequality within urban blocks. Neither rural inequality nor its local and …Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or …
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revenue (by penalties and gas sales), improving health (by reducing air pollution), and helping to deliver greater energy …
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In this paper, we first test the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, using a large sample of approximately 190 advanced and developing countries, over a period of 34 years (1989- 2022). We find that (CO2) emissions respond positively to increasing income per capita, up...
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date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis … of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian …
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different inequality measures yield varying results. Despite having higher absolute inequality, country clusters with extremely … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …-quality institutions generally do not differ much in terms of inequality outcomes. …
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zero and household real consumption reducing in all areas of the country. Meanwhile, inequality stagnated in the period … inequality for Mozambique and their trends over the last 25 years. Using real per capita consumption as the main welfare … aggregate, we look at various indicators of inequality, including the consumption distribution, percentiles and percentile …
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We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and … their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial … incidence of environmentally related impacts on health simultaneously worsens the rate of inequality reduction, we find that …
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We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … aftermath and during the uneven recovery until December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India. We find that … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …
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India. We show that since the withdrawal of the quota, the industry has witnessed unprecedented concentration of firm …-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate … wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill …
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project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts …India today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also … accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality. We report on a research …
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