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countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality.  The focus is on the period since the early-mid-1990s when growth in …-growth story.  While in the majority of countries, growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …
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Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both … poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty …
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rise in inequality of income that occured in Chine over those seven years. The Gini coefficient of household income per … for the rise in inequality are economic growth and economic transition. …
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This paper attempts to analyse certain significant aspects of increasing income inequality in China in the nineteen …
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In many developing countries, the beneficiaries of transfer programmes are determined by community-based processes, based on some general targeting rules related to needs.  This opens the door for local social and political processes to impact on who gets access.  Despite increasingly large...
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This paper explores the extent and nature of gender differences, by age, in household health expenditure allocation.  Using South African data, we adopt a hurdle methodology, constructing a sequence of decision stages (reporting sickness, consulting medical practitioner, incurring positive...
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I use a randomised conditional cash transfer program from Indonesia to provide evidence on peer effects in consumption of poor households.  I combine this with consumption visibility data from Indonesia to examine whether peer effects in consumption differ by a good's visibility.  In line with...
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Exploiting new data from a survey and behavioral experiment conducted in Peru we analyze indvidual`s preferences for securing income in old age. We identify a group that is unrationed by the mandate to save in Peru`s pension system, and draw insights from their affiliation and contribution...
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Population aging and the burden it imposes on state finances is one of the major economic challenges governments around the world face. Responses are formulated in terms of either increasing employment (for example by raising the retirement age) or increasing productivity (investment in...
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model shows that the higher the initial wealth inequality the larger the size of the informal economy and the higher the … wealth inequality will be in the long-run.  The paper calibrates the model using numerical simulations. …
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