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The paper compares the economic performance of China and India during the period of their ongoing reform policies. It … develops a new measure of development, namely, a development quality index (DQI), to compare performance of China and India …. The results show that national-level development quality grew three times faster in China than in India. Conversely, the …
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China and India. The results show that national level development quality grew three times faster in China than in India …. Conversely, the health quality grew three times as fast in India than China over the period 1980-2004. The overall regional … are trends of polarization in economic dimension of DQI in India. …
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This paper studies the effects of trade and inequality in central Spain during the eighteenth century, taking as case … income inequality in the province during the eighteenth century and concludes that inequality decreased, especially during …’s ideas, the reduction in inequality meant that markets could work properly and that a majority and not only a few could take …
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This paper studies the evolution of income inequality in central Spain during the late seventeenth and eighteenth … that was created to estimate income inequality using grain tithes. The second section shows that through the period grain … introduces an analysis of income inequality in the province during the period 1690-1800 and concludes that inequality decreased …
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The present paper tries to understand the causes behind the emergence of India‘s large agglomeration (or giant cities … is measured by the estimation of poverty, inequality and pro-poorness. The paper suggests that the upcoming ―Smart cities …‖ in India will emerge as a greater platform for future development of urban India, only if these cities surely ensure …
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This article investigates the incongruity between macroeconomic growth and poverty reduction or income distribution from a regional perspective, and relates it to the urbanization rates and the urban concentration. Using the case of the state of Ceara in Northeast Brazil, we find a persistent...
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This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is … west). A regression-based accounting framework is then used to explore root sources of the rising inequality. Policy …
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This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring … and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible intersecting inequalities, measuring between-group inequality …
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in explaining such economic outcomes as inequality can lead to misinterpretations. Income should be adjusted for costs of …
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From the theoretical discussion in uniformity and income distribution, the aim of the following remarks is to propose a causal model in order to its explanation. Economic growth process seeks for equity in income distribution. Notwithstanding turns out to be insufficient to reduce poverty, in a...
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