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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - This Version: March 27th, 2016

world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every … the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)

world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every … the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453984

The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This Version: November 24th, 2015

world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every percentile … distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409506

Inequality undermines democracy and growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason - Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar <30., … - 2019 - Final version 21 January 2019

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

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Growth-Equity Trade-Offs in Structural Reforms

Ostry, Jonathan David - 2018

Do structural reforms that aim to boost potential output also change the distribution of income? We shed light on this question by looking at the broad patterns in the cross-country data covering advanced, emerging-market, and low-income countries. Our main finding is that there is indeed...

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Structural transformation and inequality : a sSectoral analysis for low- and middle-income countries

Magwedere, Margaret Rutendo; Marozva, Godfrey - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 16 (2024) 4, pp. 423-441

The study examined the impact of structural transformation to inequality using a panel of low- and middle-income countries from 1996 - 2018. The system generalised method of moments was used to determine the effect of value-added of each sector to income inequality for the countries in the...

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Increasing Marginal Tendency to Tax Avoidance, Inequality and Economic Growth

Qi, Zixiang; Wang, Bicong; Wang, Yaxin; Lv, Yongqiang - 2022

According to increasing marginal tendency to tax avoidance, we establish a dynamic theoretical model, which illustrates an inverted U-curve relationship between economic growth and income inequality in the long run. This finding stands in sharp contrast to the Kuznets curve—whereby inequality...

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Chapter 15. Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run

Piketty, Thomas; Zucman, Gabriel - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1303-1368). 2015

up until World War I, then sharply dropped during the twentieth century following World War shocks, and have been rising …

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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are They Compatible? Part 4 : Top Incomes

Hoeller, Peter - 2012

Over the past decades, top incomes have soared, especially in the English-speaking countries. Despite a considerable amount of research on top income developments, there is still substantial disagreement about the causes for their rapid increase. Potential explanations include changes in...

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Structural transformation and income distribution : kuznets and beyond

Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets. It argues that his 1955 paper stands the test of time in providing insights which are relevant to understanding current phenomena like the...

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