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Ghana: Poverty reduction over thirty years
McKay, Andy; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015
period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418585
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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - 2015
After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....
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Mozambique: Off-track or temporarily sidelined?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in...
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Global interpersonal inequality: Trends and measurement
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - 2014
interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343234
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Discrimination without taste: How discrimination can spillover and persist
Ramachandran, Rajesh; Rauh, Christopher - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 3, pp. 249-274
We introduce coordination failures driven by beliefs regarding the presence of taste discriminators as a channel of discrimination in productive activities requiring the input of multiple agents. We show that discrimination can persist under perfectly observable ability, when taste for...
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Viet Nam: The dragon that rose from the ashes
Tarp, Finn - 2018
This study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the Vietnamese people; and subsequent developments, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943931
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207864
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214176
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Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this … inequality adversely affects aggregate contributions, and this is on account of high endowment individuals contributing a … significantly smaller share than those with low endowments. This negative effect of inequality on cooperation is exacerbated in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322611
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COVID-19: Macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world
Addison, Tony; Sen, Kunal; Tarp, Finn - 2020
concludes that the pandemic could reinforce the existing trend towards higher social inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424061