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The China Puzzle: Falling Happiness in a Rising Economy
Brockmann, Hilke; Delhey, Jan; Welzel, Christian; Yuan, Hao - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 10 (2009) 4, pp. 387-405
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061263
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Rwanda: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This paper focuses on Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) 2013–2018 for Rwanda. Ownership of the EDPRS by a wide range of stakeholders at national level has been a key factor of success. The EDPRS 2 has integrated inclusiveness and sustainability as driving factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244057
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Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility
Terrones, Marco; Prasad, Eswar; Kose, M. Ayhan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper examines the impact of international financial integration on macroeconomic volatility in a large group of industrial and developing economies over the period 1960-99. We report two major results: First, while the volatility of output growth has, on average, declined in the 1990s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263967
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Gender Disparity in Education – An Eritrean Perspective
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
at all levels. Gender inequality has become a major issue in Eritrea in the recent years. This paper discusses … educational development in the country. It identifies and analyses various factors that cause gender inequality in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836133
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Multiracialism and Meritocracy: Singapore's Approach to Race and Inequality
Moore, R. Quinn - In: Review of Social Economy 58 (2000) 3, pp. 339-360
This paper characterizes Singapore's efforts to tackle the problem of persistent racial inequality in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009200504
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An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel
Hills, John - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2010
Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways - most obviously in the gap between those who are well off and those who are less well off. But inequalities in people's economic positions are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201352
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The Growth of Inequality: Income Inequality, Earnings, and Employment
Schwartzman, David - In: Eastern Economic Journal 24 (1998) 4, pp. 507-517
The increase in inequality after the 1960s was due to substitution of capital and of skilled labor for unskilled labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005418813
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НЕРАВЕНСТВО ДОХОДОВ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ: ВИДЫ И ПОСЛЕДСТВИЯ
Данканич С.А. - In: Проблемы современной экономики (2011) 3, pp. 59-63
В статье представлены данные о неравенстве доходов населения в России. Сделано сопоставление данных о доходах населения в различных странах. Предложены меры по...
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Trends in income and consumption inequality in Bolivia: A fairy tale of growing dwarfs and shrinking giants Draft - Public disclosure unauthorized
Hernani-Limarino, Werner L.; Eid, Ahmed; Aguirre, Rodrigo - 2013
This paper documents and describes the evolution of income and consumption inequality in Bolivia between 1999 and 2011 …. We find that income and consumption inequality measured by the Gini in- dex both dropped 22% during the period we analyze …, making Bolivia the top performer in the Latin American region regarding income inequality reduction. To make a more complete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240330
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Aspiration, Attainment and Success: An Agent-Based Model of Distance-Based School Allocation
Millington, James; Butler, Tim; Hamnett, Chris - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17 (2014) 1, pp. 10-10
of inequality between parents that succeed and fail to get their child into preferred schools based upon where they live …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152406