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Constructing a social accounting matrix with a distributional focus: the case of Bolivia

Thiele, Rainer; Piazolo, Daniel - 2002

services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …

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Global food price shock and the poor in Egypt and Ukraine

Aboulenein, Soheir; El Laithy, Heba; Helmy, Omneia; … - 2010

countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable … computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and Ukraine which are used to simulate direct and indirect impacts of the food … price surge and various policy options on the performance of the main macroeconomic indicators as well as on poverty …

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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 19032004

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty...

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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings

Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - 2007

The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...

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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873-2006

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...

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Statistical theories of income and wealth distribution

Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Chakrabarti, Bikas K. - 2009

The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable features independent of the specific economic, social and political conditions of the countries. We discuss a few physics-inspired multi-agent dynamic models along with their...

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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society: Sweden, 1903 - 2004

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281326

Wealth concentration over the path of development: Sweden, 1873 - 2005

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the begin-ning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evi-dence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281378

Poverty and wealth reporting of the German Government: Approach, lessons and critique

Arndt, Christian; Volkert, Jürgen - 2009

The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the … contents of the recent 3rd Poverty and Wealth Report. We also explain why the extension of the Capability Approach from poverty …

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Welfare in Village and Towns: Micro-Measurement of Poverty and Inequality

Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Jean - 2000

We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...

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