This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on … equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 … capital on GDP per capita, and second, a permanent increase in migration ows has a positive effect on productivity growth …. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …

-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth … of countries that experienced a transition to autocracy with the growth of a convex combination of similar countries that …

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling … for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence … the black box and conditioning the variance of growth shocks on several country characteristics. Natural resource …

-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …High income growth in many countries in East Asia and the Middle East has been accompanied by increasing income … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …

1990-2014 period, we evaluate how consistently arguments related to structural market parameters – dominance, concentration … dominance is positively correlated with competitive concerns, especially in concentrated markets and in complex mergers. Yet …