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Education and Social Cohesion for Economic Growth
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2017
Relevant theoretical underpinnings suggest that higher education, continuous professional development and training … education can play a significant role in shaping key performance indicators for laudable social outcomes. It suggests that … education leadership may contribute to create a fair, just and equitable society for all. This article discusses how education …
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The Global Inequality Boomerang
Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022
In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...
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Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2015
Hammar, Olle - 2017
, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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Finance and Income Inequality : A Review and New Evidence
de Haan, Jakob - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975-2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979661
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Finance and Income Inequality : A Review and New Evidence
de Haan, Jakob - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975‐2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980576
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The global inequality boomerang
Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022
In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887946
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We examine the literature on post-1970 trends in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011...
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Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality : a worldwide perspective
Moramarco, Domenico; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2023
trust. Drawing on individual data from 82 countries around the world over the 1981-2021 period, it sheds light on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549847
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Global inequality : how large is the effect of top incomes?
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2016
In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of household surveys by combining information on income...
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Natural resources and income inequality in developed countries : synthetic control method evidence
Hartwell, Christopher A.; Horváth, Roman; Horvathova, Eva - Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung - 2019
We examine the causal effect of natural resource discoveries on income inequality using the synthetic control method on data from 1947 to 2009. We focus on the natural discoveries in Denmark, Netherlands and Norway in the 1960-1970s and use top 1% and top 10% income share as the measure of...
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