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| Kanbur, Ravi; Tuomala, Matti. |
| What explains the spectacular increases in inequality of disposable income in transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe? There are at least two possible explanations. First, the pre-tax distribution of income became more unequal because of the shift to a market economy. Second, the degree of progressivity of the income tax system declined. But each of these factors is in turn determined by other structural changes associated with transition-notably, the decrease in public provision of key public goods, the decrease in non income tax revenue sources such as profits from public production, and perhaps a decline in society's inequality aversion. This paper develops a framework in which these different forces on inequality can be assessed. Using a... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7240 |
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| Kanbur, Ravi. |
| In this paper I give an account of development debates of the past two decades, focusing on the Washington Consensus and on the broader economic development discourse in historical context. Section 2 gives a basic account of the Washington consensus and how its meaning changed from the original formulation. Section 3 presents the evolution of the economic development discourse since the second-world-war, through the 1980s, up to the present. Section 4 asks if there is now a new consensus on economic development, in light of the recent report of the Commission on Growth and Development. Section 5 concludes. |
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Palavras-chave: International Development; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48920 |
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| Kanbur, Ravi. |
| The informality discourse is large, vibrant and expanding fast. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply a tight definition consistently, the literature as a whole is in a mess. This paper proposes that informality and formality should be seen in direct relation to economic activity in the presence of specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A) regulation applicable and compliant, (B) regulation applicable and non-compliant, (C) regulation non-applicable after adjustment of activity and (D)... |
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Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48926 |
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| Bali, Namrata; Basu, Kaushik; Bhorat, Haroon; Carre, Francoise; Chen, Martha Alter; Fields, Gary S.; Jhabvala, Renana; Kanbur, Ravi; Lund, Francie; Unni, Jeemol; Valodia, Imraan. |
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Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; International Development; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51152 |
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| Kanbur, Ravi. |
| The last thirty years in the analysis of inequality and poverty, especially in developing countries, has seen two phases-a phase of conceptual advancement, followed by a phase of application and policy debate. Both phases were exciting and useful in their own way, but the applied phase has significantly exhausted the potential of the conceptual advances of two decades ago, and new advances have been few and far between. However, there is now a need, and an opening, for a new phase of conceptual advances, advances that will make use of shifting methodological terrain in mainstream economics, and that will answer emerging policy questions that would otherwise have no easy answers (or, perhaps, too easy answers). |
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Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7242 |
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| Kanbur, Ravi. |
| In the last two decades, across a range of countries high growth rates have reduced poverty but have been accompanied by rising inequality. This paper is motivated by this stylized fact, and by the strong distributional concerns that persist among populations and policy makers alike, despite the poverty reduction observed in official statistics where growth has been sufficiently high. This seeming disconnect frames the questions posed in this paper. Why the disconnect, and what to do about it? It is argued that official poverty statistics may be missing key elements of the ground level reality of distributional evolution, of which rising inequality may be an indirect indicator. Heterogeneity of population means that there may be significant numbers of poor... |
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Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51105 |
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| Rauniyar, Ganesh P.; Kanbur, Ravi. |
| This compendium brings together two companion papers on inclusive development. The first paper uses the global literature to formulate a conceptualisation of inclusive development and inclusive growth, and to put the conceptualisation through its paces by applying it to the specific case of donor assistance to rural infrastructure. The second paper conducts a detailed review and a synthesis of Asian Development Bank literature on inclusive growth and inclusive development, to see how one particular international organization has addressed, and attempted to resolve, the analytical and operational issues associated with inclusive development. |
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Palavras-chave: International Development; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57036 |
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| Fields, Gary S.; Han, Baran; Kanbur, Ravi. |
| sector employment, uncovered sector employment, and unemployment. The impact of these labor market adjustments on absolute poverty will depend on how the pattern of employment composition changes within households and on how income is shared within households. An earlier paper (Fields and Kanbur, 2007) focused on the income-sharing dimension of the problem. The present paper focuses on household employment composition. For a particular structure of the labor market— one with good jobs, bad jobs, unemployment, and adult and youth workers— and with a particular model of how the sectoral patterns of employment are translated into household employment composition, we analyze the impact of minimum wages on a class of absolute poverty measures. The precise... |
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Palavras-chave: Minimum wage; Poverty; Labor market; Financial Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51147 |
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| Fan, Shenggen; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo. |
| China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth and social development. The regional dimension of inequality— rural/urban, inland/coastal and provincial—dominates in a country as large as China, and especially with its particular history. The three of us have been researching Chinese regional inequality for over a decade. In a series of papers which have been published in peer reviewed journals, we have been involved in a systematic investigation into the nature and evolution of regional inequality in China. The object of this volume is to bring together a selection of these papers by us and our co-authors, so that researchers and... |
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Palavras-chave: Inequality; China; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51157 |
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