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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive ones disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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recommendations on how taxation should be used to address problems of inequality and poverty. The research methodology is based on a … taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries. The dataset consists of data from the World … its redistributive policies. The article contributes to the academic literature on the impact of taxation on poverty and …
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Growth, poverty reduction, and social peace are all undermined when public expenditure management and taxation are weak … potential will not be realized until good and accountable expenditure and taxation systems are built. Good fiscal policy can … peace when an unfair distribution of spending and taxation generates grievances that turn violent. Overall, fiscal policy …
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In this paper, we examine the economic policies that might allow a developing rural economy to escape from the poverty trap characterized by a subsistence level of per capita consumption in the long run. In our model where labour is combined to land available in fixed quantity to produce a...
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A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and...
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Purpose: According to the New Institutional View, the main reason for the great difference between countries in terms of growth, development and economic welfare is their institutional structures and foundations. Creating a stable structure in human relationships, institutions reduce insecurity,...
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The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" - a reduction in GDP in advanced economies - to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth - a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates,...
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“the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with …
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We document regularities in the distribution of relative incomes and investment patterns across countries. We develop a quantitative version of the neoclassical growth model with a broad measure of capital in which investment decisions are affected by distortions. These distortions follow a...
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Purpose: According to the New Institutional View, the main reason for the great difference between countries in terms of growth, development and economic welfare is their institutional structures and foundations. Creating a stable structure in human relationships, institutions reduce insecurity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014434606