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high growth rates do not moderate miserliness. Finally, considering the world as a single entity, we find a dramatic rise …
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high growth rates do not moderate miserliness. Finally, considering the world as a single entity, we find a dramatic rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652312
In the decade before the famine, Ireland experienced a boom in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This paper analyses the motivations of MFI proponents and practitioners, and finds evidence linking the boom in MFIs with the introduction of the poor law in 1838. Many contemporary writers saw...
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This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing effect on income distribution.
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Whilst the aid-growth relationship has been deeply studied, the relation between aid and inequality has not. The paper … countries and the period 1990-2000. This correlation is analyzed in a growth-poverty-inequality-institutional framework. The …
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This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … dimensions: growth patterns, labour market performances, and social policies. The proposed methodologies are then applied to the …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between growth, poverty and income distribution using household data for Colombia … for the years 1996 to 2004. We study the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty by following the Poverty … Equivalent Growth Rate (PEGR) methodology developed by Kakwani and Khandker, which considers both the magnitude of growth and the …
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Malaysia has employed the mechanism of growth with equity in an effort to eradicate poverty and ameliorate inequality … from economic development and thereby maintain social cohesion. However, the increasing pace of liberalization coupled with … through the “prosper thy neighbour” effects, as there will be spillover from their growth and wealth accumulation. Furthermore …
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development and income inequality for decades. In this paper we investigate whether a similar relationship holds between national … 'development' is expected to display the same inverted-U shape. We suggest that the existence of a Kuznets inequality of … opportunity curve can be the result of a 'triangular' relationship between development, income inequality, and inequality of …
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development and income inequality for decades. In this paper we investigate whether a similar relationship holds between national … 'development' is expected to display the same inverted-U shape. We suggest that the existence of a Kuznets inequality of … opportunity curve can be the result of a 'triangular' relationship between development, income inequality, and inequality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015395472