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Chapter 13 Income distribution and development

Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 791-841). 2000

This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the review, the paper identifies five areas that will command...

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Evolution of income mobility in the Peolpe's Republic of China : 1991 - 2002

Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2010

Annual income data may provide a misleading indicator of enduring income inequality in societies where there is considerable year-to-year income mobility. Using two rounds of data on households, the paper measures income mobility in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between the early 1990s...

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Dimensions of African inequality

Bigsten, Arne - 2014

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...

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Making growth more inclusive in Costa Rica

González Pandiella, Alberto - 2016

by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where …

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Beliefs and Culture

Strieborny, Martin - 2013

Governments perpetually align their policies to satisfy shifts in voters' relative demand for economic growth versus social equality. Following such shifts, increases (decreases) in government interventions lower (raise) both inequality and growth. This pattern is stronger in egalitarian...

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Inequality and economic development : an overview

Galor, Oded - 2009

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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014

world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every … consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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