Download or read book Essays on Inequality and Development written by Shibalee Majumdar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Inequality in the social, political and economic realms of an individual and a society's existence affects the social fabric and individual well-being. Even when the average income and food production of the world has increased manifolds in the last fifty years, extreme poverty and malnutrition exists in many parts of the world. The aim of my dissertation is to address a few relevant questions that are bound to arise in any mind that has been exposed to the developments of the local and global world. While my first essay questions the efficacy of the political reservation system in India in abating social and political inequality and improving the life of minority groups, my second and third essays studies the interactions between economic growth, government policies and income inequality. Reviewing previous research and detailed empirical analysis shows that the affirmative action of political reservation still has to go a long way in bringing the standard of living of the minority groups at par with the mainstream population, that economic growth has a heterogeneous association with income inequality across regions and that people-based and place-based government policies have non-uniform impact on inequality.

Download or read book Essays on Inequality and Growth written by Ozan Hatipogl̆u and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty Inequality and Development written by Alain de Janvry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays honors a remarkable man and his work. Erik Thorbecke has made significant contributions to the microeconomic and the macroeconomic analysis of poverty, inequality and development, ranging from theory to empirics and policy. The essays in this volume display the same range. As a collection they make the fundamental point that deep understanding of these phenomena requires both the micro and the macro perspectives together, utilizing the strengths of each but also the special insights that come when the two are linked together. After an overview section which contains the introductory chapter and a chapter examining the historical roots of Erik Thorbecke's motivations, the essays in this volume are grouped into four parts, each part identifying a major strand of Erik's work—Measurement of Poverty and Inequality, Micro Behavior and Market Failure, SAMs and CGEs, and Institutions and Development. The range of topics covered in the essays, written by leading authorities in their own areas, highlight the extraordinary depth and breadth of Erik Thorbecke's influence in research and policy on poverty, inequality and development. Acknowledgements These papers were presented at a conference in honor of Erik Thorbecke held at Cornell University on October 10-11, 2003. The conference was supported by the funds of the H. E. Babcock Chair in Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, and the T. H. Lee Chair in World Affairs at Cornell University.

Download or read book Three Essays on Income Inequality and Economic Growth written by Aoyu Hou and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Development the Family and Income Distribution written by Simon Kuznets and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-12 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. The first four chapters deal with 'modern economic growth'. Chapters five to seven introduce the main theme of the remainder of the volume: interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. Chapters eight to ten draw on a wider set of data to make comparisons of income inequality among societies at widely different levels of development. Chapter eleven returns to data for the United States to develop more fully the importance of differing childbearing patterns for income inequality. In the introduction Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings. In the afterword Professor Robert Fogel discusses the methodologies favoured by Kuznets.

Download or read book Essays on Inequality Institutional Change and Growth written by Diego F. Grijalva and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutions are a key determinant of economic growth. I explore the links of institutions with social conditions, particularly inequality and the distribution of power in society, and look at how ideology and communication affect institutional change. In Chapter 1, I analyze the effect of inequality on growth over different time-frames. Consistent with the notion that there is a trade-off between efficiency and fairness, I find that some inequality is good for growth when we look at the short-run. Yet, I also find that too much inequality is bad for growth implying that there exists an optimal level of inequality. Moreover, the trade-off between efficiency and fairness weakens over longer time-frames. In the long-run, the negative effect of inequality on growth tends to dominate. The reason seems to be that most of the positive effects of inequality are economic and take place in the short-run, while the negative social and political effects of inequality become key in the long-run. In Chapter 2, I present a theoretical model that analyzes the role of ideas in processes of institutional change, focusing on the particular case of democratization. Extensions of the franchise are only possible when ideological leaders generate ideas opposing the status-quo and when these ideas spread to other segments of society. Ideological differences help explain the occurrence of civil conflict. More importantly, they constitute a necessary condition for institutional change. Whether democratization occurs peacefully or violently is determined by the preferences of the incumbent elite and the ideological leaders. In Chapter 3, I conduct a laboratory experiment in which I explore the role of communication in a context similar to that presented in Chapter 2. I find that material interests opposed to cooperation limit the cooperative effect of communication and discussion in social dilemmas. Thus, while communication by an external agent with interests aligned with the cooperative outcome does promote cooperation, when the external agent has interests opposed to cooperation or when communication is contested by external agents with conflicting interests, the effect of communication disappears. This raises questions on the role of discussion as a mechanism to promote cooperation when there exist conflicting interests.

Download or read book Growth Poverty and Inequality Dynamics written by Julian Weisbrod and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving human development, or in other words, economic growth is an important pre-requisite for the ultimate goal of human well-being. The four empirical essays of this book add to the general debate concerning dynamics of growth, poverty and inequality over the past 40 years from four different dimensions. The first chapter analyses the dynamics of the cross-country per capita income distribution and the existence of convergence clubs. The second chapter focuses on the dynamic development of the global income distribution and resulting implications for global income convergence, poverty reduction, pro-poor growth and the evolution of global inequality within and between countries. The third chapter investigates the deterministic relationship between ethnic fractionalisation and growth in a macro cross-country regression framework. Finally, the fourth chapter adds to the understanding of micro determinants of growth and poverty in the context of Indonesia.

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Activity Growth and Inequality written by Jinyoung Hwang and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three essays on inequality and economic growth written by Universitat de València. Departament d'Anàlisi Econòmica and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Education Investment Income Inequality and Economic Growth written by Tin-Chun Lin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Education Investment Income Inequality and Economic Growth written by Tin-Chun Lin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to learn the relationship among education, productivity, income distribution, and economic growth, as well as to link the structure of the educational system to the economic and social character of the society. Essay 1 examines the equilibrium levels of public and private education in a model where public and private education can exist at the same time. There is no possibility for collapse of the public education system; however, the private education system will collapse in the long run if human capital grows faster in the public education sector than in the private education sector. Income inequality declines over time, and a heterogeneous economy becomes a homogeneous society in the long run. As long as income convergence exists in an economy, a balance growth path exists in the long run. Essay 2 investigates the effects of investment in education and the role of technical progress on economic growth in Taiwan in 1964 - 2000. Education provides a positive and significant effect on output growth in Taiwan, but the role of technical progress does not appear to be extraordinarily important.

Download or read book Inequality and Economic Policy written by Tom Church and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution Conference on Inequality in honor of Gary Becker, a group of distinguished contributors explore various measures of inequality in America and address the issue of whether or not it is increasing. In looking at this question and examining policy implications, the authors draw on research on human capital and intergenerational mobility. The authors suggest that the emphasis on inequality and redistribution, while not wrong, is nevertheless misplaced, for it may lead us to adopt policies that will disrupt the progress we have made while doing nothing to promote the kind of growth that is essential to national progress.

Download or read book Essays on Inequality Credit Constraints and Growth in Contemporary Mexico written by Leopoldo Gómez-Ramírez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents four essays on inequality, credit constraints, and economic growth in the Mexican economy in its recent history, or "contemporary Mexico". In the first essay, it is argued that the possibility that wealth/income inequality could affect economic growth has been neglected in the contemporary Mexican economy literature. Also, preliminary thoughts on the channels through which inequality could have been affecting growth are offered. In the second essay, a time series, macroeconometric analysis on the possible relationship between inequality and aggregate production (GDP) in Mexico is presented. The analysis suggests that an increase in inequality boosts the economy, but that such effect is very short lived and is followed by a much more prolonged negative effect. In the third essay the question of how, if at all, credit constraints have been affecting physical capital investment is addressed. The analysis is carried out using establishment-level data that are both recent and reasonably nationally representative. To the best of my knowledge this is a novel contribution. It is a common tenet of the literature on why Mexico -despite its vast liberalization process occurring since the 1980s- has not achieved high and sustained growth, that credit constraints are an important reason explaining the sluggish growth. When digging deeper in the literature, however, very few empirical studies offering evidence in favor of such claim are found; a contribution using microeconomic data with the intention of being nationally representative could not be found. Consistent with the general claims of the literature, the findings of the analysis are that credit constraints negatively affected investment decisions. The fourth essay examines theoretical issues. The links between credit constraints and growth may seem obvious. But one would still like to have a clarification of the mechanisms, through formal modeling. To the best of my knowledge, such a formal model has not been proposed in the recent Mexican literature. The essay, thus, presents a model in which credit constraints can reduce capital accumulation. It is, I believe, applicable to the contemporary Mexico case.

Download or read book Acceptable Inequalities written by Ian Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Endogenous Lifetime Economic Growth and Income Inequality written by Jayanta Sarkar and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Inequality Development and Growth written by Chandini Sankaran and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Financial Development Inequality and Economic Growth written by Arshad Ali Bhatti and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: