Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty? write by Mr.Sanjeev Gupta. This book was released on 1998-05-01. Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic growth, the progressivity of the tax system, the level and effectiveness of social spending, and the formation of human capital, and by perpetuating an unequal distribution of asset ownership and unequal access to education. These findings hold for countries with different growth experiences, at different stages of development, and using various indices of corruption. An important implication of these results is that policies that reduce corruption will also lower income inequality and poverty.
Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality
Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality write by Ms.Era Dabla-Norris. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some common drivers being the skill premium associated with technical change and globalization, weakening protection for labor, and lack of financial inclusion in developing countries. We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the top 20 percent results in lower growth—that is, when the rich get richer, benefits do not trickle down. This suggests that policies need to be country specific but should focus on raising the income share of the poor, and ensuring there is no hollowing out of the middle class. To tackle inequality, financial inclusion is imperative in emerging and developing countries while in advanced economies, policies should focus on raising human capital and skills and making tax systems more progressive.
Globalization and Poverty
Globalization and Poverty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization and Poverty write by Ann Harrison. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Globalization and Poverty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 write by World Bank Group. This book was released on 2016-10-12. Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 is the first of an annual flagship report that will inform a global audience comprising development practitioners, policy makers, researchers, advocates, and citizens in general with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. This edition will also document trends in inequality and identify recent country experiences that have been successful in reducing inequalities, provide key lessons from those experiences, and synthesize the rigorous evidence on public policies that can shift inequality in a way that bolsters poverty reduction and shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. Specifically, the report will address the following questions: • What is the latest evidence on the levels and evolution of extreme poverty and shared prosperity? • Which countries and regions have been more successful in terms of progress toward the twin goals and which are lagging behind? • What does the global context of lower economic growth mean for achieving the twin goals? • How can inequality reduction contribute to achieving the twin goals? • What does the evidence show concerning global and between- and within-country inequality trends? • Which interventions and countries have used the most innovative approaches to achieving the twin goals through reductions in inequality? The report will make four main contributions. First, it will present the most recent numbers on poverty, shared prosperity, and inequality. Second, it will stress the importance of inequality reduction in ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity by 2030 in a context of weaker growth. Third, it will highlight the diversity of within-country inequality reduction experiences and will synthesize experiences of successful countries and policies, addressing the roots of inequality without compromising economic growth. In doing so, the report will shatter some myths and sharpen our knowledge of what works in reducing inequalities. Finally, it will also advocate for the need to expand and improve data collection—for example, data availability, comparability, and quality—and rigorous evidence on inequality impacts in order to deliver high-quality poverty and shared prosperity monitoring.
Inequality and Growth
Inequality and Growth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inequality and Growth write by Theo S. Eicher. This book was released on 2003. Inequality and Growth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays exploring the relationship between economic growth and inequality and the implications for policy makers.
