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We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...
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socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …
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reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses … these data by population andover time, we hope to address questions that are at the coreof current debates about inequality … in the United States:How great is inequality? Does income inequality exaggerate,or reflect, inequality in material and …
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Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions;goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based onthe EDF, an aggregation of differences in...
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That Britain became more unequal in the last quarter century is well known; the scale of change, less so.At the end of the 1970s, the richest tenth received 21 per cent of total disposable income. This rose to 28-29per cent by 2002-03, as much as the whole of the bottom half. More than half of...
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explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …
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Poverty.[...] …
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revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
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negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … have a robustnegative association with both corruption and inequality. Radios and TVs are alsoobserved to have a robust …
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to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …
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