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Explaining Poverty Evolution: The Case of Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Jones, E. Samuel; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862800

Global interpersonal inequality: Trends and measurement

Nino-Zarazua, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER.s World Income Inequality Database. In order to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739475

Fiscal policy, inequality and the ethnic divide in Guatemala

Cabrera, Maynor; Lustig, Nora; Moran, Hilcias E. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

inequality and poverty overall or along ethnic and rural-urban lines. Persistently low tax revenues are the main limiting factor …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098379

Global interpersonal inequality Trends and measurement

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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 …

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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

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....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418641

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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Social Policies or Private Solidarity?: The Equalizing Role of Migration and Remittances in El Salvador

Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540137

Explaining poverty evolution: The case of Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Jones, E. Samuel; … - 2011

approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280145

Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador

Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319809