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This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions … to the concepts of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC …-income poverty à la capability approach of Amartya Sen) allows a rich discussion of policy interventions. While both orientations as …
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growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …
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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 … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …
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relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …
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Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative … rents-induced inequality. …
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In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …
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This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are … interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were … convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy …
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With varying aptitudes in different occupations, individuals typically maximize income by specializing in one occupation which promises the highest income. Due to numerous labor market imperfections and uncertainties, the choice of best occupation is accomplished with only partial success. We...
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In a public good economy the distribution of initial income is an important determinant of how many individuals contribute to the public good. For the case when all individuals have identical preferences in this paper a simple formula is derived that describes the proportion of all income...
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the U.S. We review insights from the recent macroeconomic literature on inequality and growth and use these insights to … shed light on the growth and inequality trends …
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