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This paper disaggregates the various sources of rural income growth in Peru between 2004 and 2012 and shows that about 80% of the increase came from rising earnings and only 15% from transfer programs. This increase in rural earnings was not led by agriculture. It was mainly because of a general...
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That inequality varies within and between groups is well understood. We explore how inequality can also be "fractal … inequality. Caste is generally analysed with government-defined "broad" categories, such as Scheduled Caste (SC). In everyday … life, however, caste is experienced as "jati", a local system of stratification. We explore expenditure inequality at the …
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Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where...
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