SMR Kanbur… - 1991 - books.google.com
Which kinds of countries choose to become tax havens? What is the likely pattern of taxation
in a border-free" Europe 1992" if there is no central coordination of tax rates? Are there
simple forms of coordination from which all Member States could expect to benefit? Is ...
L Haddad… - The Economic Journal, 1990 - JSTOR
In the measurement of inequality and poverty, the significance of intrahousehold inequality
clearly depends on the objective of the exercise. In the growing literature on this subject, the
reason for investigating intra-household inequality is that the ultimate object of concern for ...
H Alderman,
PA Chiappori, L Haddad… - The World Bank …, 1995 - World Bank
Abstract Most development objectives focus on the well-being of individuals. Policies are
targeted to increase the percentage of individuals who avoid poverty, who can read, who are
free from hunger and illness, or who can find gainful employment. Individual welfare, ...
R Kanbur - World Development, 2001 - Elsevier
The last 20 years have seen growing areas of agreement on poverty reduction strategies,
but disagreements on economic policy, distribution and poverty seem to have intensified.
This paper tries to identify the underlying nature of these disagreements, related to ...
S Anand… - Journal of Development Economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract In his classic paper on economic growth and income inequality, Kuznets discussed
the process of population shift from traditional to modern activities as the basis for a theory of
distributional change during the course of development. In this paper, we present a ...
C Grootaert… - 1995 - books.google.com
Conclusion* Background paper for the 1995 World Development Report, on Labor. The
authors would like to thank Michael Walton and the 1995 WDR Team for useful feedback on
an earlier version of the paper, and Susan Cochrane for sharing her many insights into the ...
R Kanbur… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1999 - Elsevier
This paper develops a unified empirical framework for describing the relative contribution of
rural–urban and inland–coastal inequality to overall regional inequality in China during the
1980's and 1990's. The framework assesses rural–urban and inland–coastal inequalities ...
R Kanbur… - Review of Development Economics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The paper constructs and analyzes a long-run time series for regional inequality in
China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of
inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the ...
R Kanbur… - … of development economics: The future in …, 2001 - books.google.com
ERADICATING, OR AT LEAST REDUCING, poverty lies at the heart of development
economics. Although development seeks to benefit all members of society, the poor demand
our special attention. Any reasonable definition of poverty implies that significant numbers ...
S Anand… - Journal of Development economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper we subject the influential cross-section estimation of the inequality-
development relationship by Ahluwalia to detailed scrutiny. We investigate the robustness of
his estimates to variations in functional form, and find that different functional forms- ...
R Kanbur - Handbook of income distribution, 2000 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and
development. It argues that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another,
responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the review, the ...
X Zhang… - Journal of Development Studies, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years there has been much discussion of the difference between inequality and
polarisation. The vast literature on inequality is held to miss out key features of distributional
change, which are better described as changes in polarisation. Axioms have been ...
T Besley… - The Economic Journal, 1988 - JSTOR
The question of food subsidies seem-s to be at the forefront of nearly all discussion of
macroeconomic adjustment in developing countries. The discussions are highly charged,
with issues of political expediency being tied to issues of economic efficiency and equity. ...
SMR Kanbur - Staff Papers-International Monetary Fund, 1987 - JSTOR
This paper reviews recent developments in the measurement of poverty, analyzes
alternative strategies for poverty alleviation, and suggests a methodology for evaluating the
impact of macroeconomic adjustment on poverty. The paper begins with the conceptual ...
SMR Kanbur, T Sandler… - 1999 - arts.cornell.edu
This essay is a bold attempt to change altogether the way we think about and the way we do
foreign aid. It raises a deep challenge for the development community. The authors mean to
be thought-provoking, and they succeed. They make a proposal about the future of foreign ...
R Kanbur… - Annual World Bank Conference on …, 1999 - dyson.cornell.edu
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the reasons why inequality, and distribution more
generally, have come to the fore in the development discourse at the tum of the century, after
a period of relative neglect in the 1980s. The paper considers, in particular the analysis of ...
X Zhang… - China Economic Review, 2005 - Elsevier
While increasing income inequality in China has been commented on and studied
extensively, relatively little analysis is available on inequality in other dimensions of human
development. Using data from different sources, this paper presents some basic facts on ...
R Kanbur - African Journal of International Affairs and …, 2000 - woc.uc.pt
Abstract This paper presents a diagnosis of the current dysfunctionalities of the aid,
conditionality and debt regime in Africa. It is argued that the key feature of the current system
is that of aid dependence, which is characterized as an unhealthy process of interaction ...
R Kanbur… - Oxford Economic Papers, 1994 - JSTOR
The object of this paper is to investigate the implications of intra-household bargaining
models for the behavior of intra-household inequality as a function of total household
resources. We find theoretical support forKuznets effects', ie a systematic pattern of ...
R Kanbur… - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This Paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in
China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of
inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the ...
R Kanbur - World Development, 2002 - Elsevier
Development economics nowadays is mainstream economics applied to poor countries. An
examination of the core principles of mainstream economics reveals tremendous strengths,
but also tremendous weaknesses. Other disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology and ...
C Grootaert… - The Journal of Development Studies, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
This article is an exploratory exercise in using panel data sets to investigate distributional
change in Côte d'Ivoire during the second half of the 1980s. The panels made it possible to
highlight and quantify mobility of the same households across poverty classes over time. ...
SM Ravi Kanbur - World Development, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract The object of this paper is to set out a methodology for analyzing the impact on the
poor in less developed countries (LDCs) of adjustment to disturbances arising in the
international sectors sectors of these economies. The methodology is not based on a ...
AJ Venables, A Smith, P Krugman… - Economic Policy, 1986 - JSTOR
The textbook model of international trade is set in a world of perfectly competitive markets
where products are homogenous and economies of scale are absent. Yet empirical
evidence of two-way trade in similar products and of the importance of scale economies ...
EO Boateng, K Ewusi, R Kanbur… - Journal of African Economies, 1992 - CSAE
Abstract The successes of the Economic Recovery Programme in Ghana are now well-
known. Nevertheless, as recognized by the Government of Ghana, many individuals remain
in acute poverty. Furthermore, the process of adjustment by its very nature is likely to ...
R Kanbur… - Journal of Economic Geography, 2005 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract Standard models of labor migration suggest that migration is induced by real
income differentials across locations and will, ceteris paribus, serve to reduce those
differentials. And yet there is evidence that growing spatial inequality may co-exist with ...
S Horton, R Kanbur, D Mazumdar - 1994 - cabdirect.org
Abstract This is the second volume in a study organized by the Economic Development
Institute of the World Bank in collaboration with the universities of Toronto and Warwick and
supported by the Overseas Development Administration of the UK and the governments of ...
SMR Kanbur - 2003 - books.google.com
Increasingly It Is Recognized That Policy Design For Attacking Poverty Requires An
Approach That Makes Best Use Of The Relative Strengths Of Qualitative And Quantitative
Analytical Tools, Applied To The Situation At Hand. This Volume Brings Together The ...
R Kanbur, M Keen… - The World Bank Economic Review, 1994 - World Bank
Abstract The introduction of variable labor supply raises some fundamental issues in
analyzing the targeting of poverty alleviation programs in developing countries. It forces a
reconsideration of the standard objective function, which is based on income or ...
R Kanbur, M Keen… - European Economic Review, 1994 - Elsevier
This paper examines the optimal use of income information in designing tax/transfer systems
to alleviate poverty, exploring the implications of a non-welfarist objective function that
captures the tone of much policy debate: an income-based poverty index. A key welfarist ...
R Kanbur, J Pirttilä… - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research in behavioural economics has uncovered the widespread phenomenon
of people making decisions against their own good intentions. In these situations, the
government might want to intervene, indeed individuals might want the government to ...
S Horton, SMR Kanbur… - 1991 - books.google.com
This overview of a. symposium on labor markets and adjustment concludes that:(1) real
wages are more flexible than generally supposed,(2) labor reallocations across sectors
have been more or less in the desired direction, and (3) the role of labor unions, generally ...
R Immonen, R Kanbur, M Keen… - Economica, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores aspects of the optimal design of tax/transfer schemes that involve
elements of both 'tagging'(the use of categorical benefits) and 'means-testing'(income-
relation of benefits). Simulations suggest a striking qualitative dissimilarity between the ...
R Kanbur - Handbook on the economics of giving, reciprocity and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting
the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the “trade-theoretic” and the
“contract-theoretic” analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It ...
C Grootaert, R Kanbur… - The Journal of Development …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
This article uses panel survey data for Côte d'Ivoire to investigate the determinants of
welfare gains and losses of households over time. A first‐difference model is estimated
which takes account of initial conditions. For urban areas, it was found that human capital ...
L Haddad… - 1991 - ideas.repec.org
The two literatures on targeting and on intrahousehold inequality have developed rapidly
over the past 15 years, but largely independent of each other. The literature on targeting
concerns itself with the design of tax and transfer programs for poverty alleviation in the ...
SMR Kanbur - The Journal of Political Economy, 1982 - JSTOR
The objective of this paper is to investigate the" conventional wisdom" that there is a policy
conflict between the reduction of inequality and the encouragement of entrepreneurial risk
taking. The paper attempts to provide a precise statement of this conflict in the context of ...
R Kanbur - Cornell University. www. people. cornell. edu/pages/ …, 2001 - dyson.cornell.edu
It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment
opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be
denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination involving, but not ...
R Kanbur… - World Development, 2007 - Elsevier
The turn to the use of mixed qualitative and quantitative (Q-Squared) methods in the
analysis of poverty is a welcome development with large potential payoffs. While the benefits
of mixing are not in doubt, the tensions involved in so doing have not received adequate ...
NH Chau, R Kanbur,
A Harrison… - Brookings trade forum, 2001 - JSTOR
In the empirical literature on labor standards and economic performance, the adoption of
international labor standards is measured by the ratification of International Labor
Organization (ILO) conventions and is treated as an exoge nous variable that explains ...
SMR Kanbur - 1992 - www-wds.worldbank.org
Policy Research Working Papers disscminate thc findings of work in progress and encourage
the cxchangc of ideas among Bank staff and allothers inwtessed in development
issues.Thesepapers, distributed by the Rcscarch Advisory Staff, carry the names of the ...
R Kanbur… - Bulletin of economic Research, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
There is a glaring paradox in all commonly used measures of poverty. The death of a poor
person, because of poverty, reduces poverty according to these measures. This surely
violates our basic intuitions of how poverty measures should behave. It cannot be right in ...
R Kanbur - WP2002-09, Dept. of Applied Economics, …, 2002 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Abstract 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 ...
R Kanbur… - The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1994 - JSTOR
In most countries, marginal tax rates increase with income. This is at variance with the
results of the optimal income taxation literature, whose numerical calculations have
established the presumption that optimal marginal tax rates should decline with income. ...
R Kanbur - Globalization, culture and the limits of the market: …, 2001 - arts.cornell.edu
Abstract Certain markets evoke popular discomfort, distrust and even outrage. Trade in
arms, drugs, toxic waste, child labor and body parts, for example, elicits these reactions to
different degrees. This paper asks—what is it about some markets that brings about these ...
R Jayaraman, R Kanbur… - 1999 - dyson.cornell.edu
Abstract In the presence of international public goods, donors are faced with two instruments
whereby recipient utility may be altered-contributions towards the international public good
and direct transfers (conventional foreign aid). The self-interested donor's optimal choice ...
R Kanbur… - The World Bank: Structure and Policies, 2000 - books.google.com
The mission of the World Bank is to achieve aworld without poverty'. Over the 50-plus years
since the end of the Second World War when the Bank was founded, there have been
radical shifts in views about how this might best be achieved. In this chapter we chart the ...
SMR Kanbur… - 1990 - www-wds.worldbank.org
The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of
the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated
organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they ...
R Kanbur… - Economic Policy, 1987 - JSTOR
In spite of poverty alleviation programmes in the UK and the US, poverty still exists in both
countries, and a significant share of welfare funds do not even reach the poor. This is partly
because funds are simply limited and shrinking. But there are also fundamental problems ...
S Anand… - The Economic Journal, 1985 - JSTOR
The object of this paper is to investigate the behaviour of poverty indices during the course
of development. Since development is a complex process one cannot hope to capture in a
single model all its different facets. Thus, for example, the famous Lewis (1954) model, ...
This authoritative volume explores poverty and labor market issues over the first decade of
democracy in South Africa. It is an attempt by leading South African scholars—
supplemented by the work of international scholars working on South Africa—to take stock ...
R Kanbur - Politikon, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has been proposed as a key element of the
New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). It is important that the APRM be
debated thoroughly in terms of concept and design. This paper is a contribution to the ...
B Guha-Khasnobis, R Kanbur… - 2007 - econpapers.repec.org
The concepts of formal and informal remain central to the theory and practice of
development more than half a century after they were introduced into the debate. They help
structure the way that statistical services collect data on the economies of developing ...
R Kanbur - 2002 - Taylor & Francis
This article, originally delivered as a public lecture in Pretoria at a forum hosted by the
Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN), outlines the key structural features of
the newly launched and South African government-driven New Partnership for Africa's ...
R Kanbur - Global tensions: challenges and opportunities in the …, 2004 - books.google.com
Cross-border externalities and international public goods have come to the fore in the
development debate and in the debate on global governance like never before. This is
because there is greater awareness of these issues, and also because advances in ...
DB Grusky, SMR Kanbur… - 2006 - books.google.com
This volume brings together leading public intellectuals—Amartya Sen, Martha C.
Nussbaum, François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A.
Fineman—to take stock of current analytic understandings of poverty and inequality.< br>< ...
H Bhorat… - DPRU Working Paper 05/101, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This is an overview of poverty and well-being in the first decade of post-apartheid
South Africa. It is an introduction to a volume that brings together some of the most
prominent academic research done on this topic for the 10-year review process in South ...
SMR Kanbur - Oxford Economic Papers, 1984 - JSTOR
" One of the greatest evils in international trade before the war was the wide and rapid
fluctuations in the world prices of primary products... It must be the primary purpose of control
to prevent these wide fluctuations..." Keynes (1942)
F Bourguignon, A Bénassy-Quéré… - … European Report on …, 2008 - europa-eu-un.com
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the expression of the strong commitment to
universal development and poverty eradication made by the International Community in the
UN Millennium Declaration in September 2000. They offer a set of concrete targets that ...
R Kanbur… - Journal of African Economies, 1994 - CSAE
Abstract This paper develops a regional price index for Côte d'Ivoire building on the
strengths of two independent data sources—the Living Standards Survey and the
International Comparisons Project. The latter collected a wealth of information on prices ...
R Kanbur… - 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper develops a modest proposal for introducing final outcome indicators in
the IDA aid allocation formula. It starts with a review of the current formula and the rationale
for it. It is argued that this formula, and in particular the Country Policy and Institutional ...
R Kanbur - Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Economists are now familiar with 'between'and 'within'group inequality
decompositions, for race, gender, spatial units, etc. But what exactly is the normative
significance of the empirical results produced by these decompositions? This paper raises ...
S Horton, R Kanbur… - Int'l Lab. Rev., 1991 - HeinOnline
Labour markets play a central role in determining the macroeconomic success of
stabilization and adjustment policies and in mediating the impact of these policies on the
standards of living of the population, notably of the poor. This paper'summarizes the ...
R Kanbur - Journal of International Affairs, 2005 - questia.com
This commentary poses a series of progressively harder questions in the economic analysis
of growth, inequality and poverty. Starting with relatively straightforward analysis of the
relationship between growth and inequality, the first level of hard questions comes when ...
C Grootaert, R Kanbur - 1990 - cabdirect.org
Abstract The paper presents a methodology for analysing the evolution of poverty under
structural adjustment. The empirical application of this methodology to Ivory Coast will be a
major task of the World Bank's SDA (Social Dimensions of Adjustment in Sub-Saharan ...
R Kanbur, M Keen… - The economics of …, 1995 - books.google.com
Environmental sustainability of economic growth hinges on the pollution intensity of output. If
that intensity declines as growth progresses, through active policy or otherwise, economic
growth within the confines of a limited resource base becomes at least possible. Recent ...
MA Ferroni, SMR Kanbur - 1990 - www-wds.worldbank.org
Public expenditure choices play a fundamental role in Section 3, the links between public
expenditure repoverty alleviation through their effects on the supply structuring and poverty
alleviation are explored in a response of adjusting economies and their contribu- ...
R Kanbur - SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR BULLETIN, 2004 - fdi.developmentgateway.org
Abstract This commentary poses a series of progressively harder questions in the economic
analysis of growth, inequality and poverty. Starting with relatively straightforward analysis of
the relationship between growth and inequality, the first level of hard questions come ...
R Kanbur… - 1990 - ideas.repec.org
Is there a" Kuznets curve" for intra household inequality? Does intra household inequality
first increase, peak, and then decrease as the household becomes better off? The authors
found both theoretical and tentative empirical support for this hypothesis. The policy ...
T Addison, D Hulme… - 2009 - books.google.com
This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and
methods that can be used to understand poverty dynamics. It does this from an
interdisciplinary perspective and includes the work of anthropologists, economists, ...
R Kanbur… - 1988 - ideas.repec.org
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S Claessens, E Detragiache, R Kanbur… - Journal of African …, 1997 - CSAE
Abstract A group of low-income countries (the HIPCs), most of which are in Sub-Saharan
Africa, has continued to experience external debt problems. Because the economic
characteristics and the external imbalances of the HIPCs are very different from those of ...
[CITATION] Which regional inequality: rural-urban or coast-inland? An application to China
R Kanbur… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1999
R Kanbur… - Chapter, 2007 - books.google.com
AMIDST a growing concern about increasing inequality, the spatial dimensions of inequality
have begun to attract considerable policy interest. In China, Russia, India, Mexico and South
Africa, as well as most other developing and transition economies, there is a sense that ...
I Dasgupta… - Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005 - Springer
Abstract The standard theory of anti-poverty targeting assumes individual incomes cannot
be observed, but statistical properties of income distribution in broadly defined groups are
known.'Indicator targeting'rules are then derived for the forms of transfers conditioned on ...
R Kanbur - The Standard of Living, 1987 - books.google.com
Upon the fairest prospects of earthly happiness, attend uncertainty and mischance Epitaph
in Madingley church If it is hard to think of an idea more immediate than that of the living
standard, it must be equally hard to think of a phenomenon more pervasive than that of ...
C Grootaert, L Demery… - 1996 - getcited.org
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LJ Haddad, SMR Kanbur - 1990 - books.google.com
Within the framework of intrahousehold bargaining, it is argued that (1) targeting of transfers
to disadvantaged members of the household is important,(2) structural adjustment that
favors cash crops over food crops may end up worsening intrahousehold inequality, and ( ...
R Kanbur - International Social Science Journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
1. Ravi Kanbur is TH Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics at Cornell
University. He was educated at Cambridge and at Oxford, and has held academic
appointments in several universities in the US and in the UK. He has also held ...
R Kanbur - G24 G, 2002 - arts.cornell.edu
Abstract The global International Financial Institutions (IFI's) increasingly justify their
operations in terms of the provision of International Public Goods (IPG's). This is partly
because there appears to be support among the rich countries of the North for ...
SMR Kanbur - Journal of Economic Theory, 1982 - csa.com
In the analysis of decision making under uncertainty, particular interest attaches to the
response of the agent's optimal decision when the random variable he faces bacomes
"riskier." For two alternative definitions of "increasing risk" Rothschild and Stiglitz (1971) ...
A Braverman… - World Development, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper is an exercise in the incorporation of “political economy” constraints into
the analysis of policy reform. It is an illustrative exercise, focusing on the potential
distributional consequences of agricultural price reform. In the stylized model discussed in ...
SR Chakravarty, R Kanbur… - social choice and Welfare, 2006 - Springer
Abstract If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty
comes down, has poverty gone up or gone down? The economist's instinct, framed by
population replication axioms that undergird standard measures of poverty, is to say that ...
C Grootaert, SMR Kanbur… - 1995 - books.google.com
However, all such studies must beg the question whether the observed trends in poverty
pertain to the same or different poor people. In other words, if poverty incidence is observed
to increase, it is not known whether this is due to new poor having joined the existing poor, ...
R Jhabvala… - … performance and prospects in the 1990s …, 2004 - books.google.com
Globalization is one of those words that seem to be all things to all people. Some use it in
the narrow sense to mean increased trade and capital flows between nations. There is no
question that such global integration has proceeded apace since the Second World War, ...
SMR Kanbur… - Bulletin of Economic Research, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The paper surveys recent work on dual economy models starting from the
famous 1961 Jorgenson paper and ending with some of the new contributions to the
literature on North-South trade which have the same analytical structure as the dual ...
R Kanbur… - Introduction to an edited volume of …, 2003 - arts.cornell.edu
These questions have become important in recent years as, amidst a growing concern about
increasing inequality, the spatial dimensions of inequality have begun to attract
considerable policy interest. In China, Mexico, Russia, India, and South Africa, as well as ...
R Kanbur, J Pirttilä… - The Scandinavian Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The standard theory of optimal income taxation under uncertainty has been developed
under the assumption that individuals maximise expected utility. However, prospect theory
has now been established as an alternative model of individual behaviour, with empirical ...
[CITATION] The measurement and decomposition of inequality and poverty
SMR Kanbur - Mathematical Methods in Economics, 1984 - John Wiley and Sons
SMR Kanbur… - 1986 - princeton.edu
Abstract This paper is a contribution to the comparison of mobility in a social welfare
framework. In particular, we emphasize the consequences of alternative mobility structures
for dynastic inequality. This means that we consider social welfare functions which are not ...
B Guha-Khasnobis, SMR Kanbur, E Ostrom… - 2006 - dyson.cornell.edu
The constructed opposites of formality and informality have been a constant of the
development discourse for more than half a century. They have anchored theoretical,
empirical, and policy discussion in many disciplines as they have studied the ...
R Kanbur - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. 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 ...
R Kanbur - Working Papers, 1991 - econpapers.repec.org
By R. Kanbur; Linear Expenditure Systems, Children as Public
Goods and Intra-Household Inequality.
R Kanbur - Proceeding [of the] Annual Conference on …, 1990 - agris.fao.org
Abstract (English) This paper examines the interrelations between the World Bank's project
(investment) loans and its policy reform (adjustment) loans. Since the late 1970's,
adjustment loans have come to constitute about a quarter of annual World Bank lending. ...
GS Fields… - Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007 - Springer
Abstract Textbook analysis tells us that in a competitive labor market, the introduction of a
minimum wage above the competitive equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This
paper makes three contributions to the basic theory of the minimum wage. First, we ...
AK Basu, NH Chau… - The Economic Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In many countries, non-compliance with minimum wage legislation is widespread and
authorities may be seen as having turned a blind eye to legislation they have themselves
passed. We show that turning a blind eye can indeed be an equilibrium phenomenon with ...
I Dasgupta… - Journal of Public Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions
of an unequal income distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to
which all those in the community have equal access, but from which outsiders are ...
R Kanbur - Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World, 2007 - books.google.com
The discourse on globalization, economic liberalization, and growth is contentious partly,
perhaps mainly, because of the distributional dimension. The “anti-globalizers,” if one is
permitted that shorthand with all its problems, point to the negative distributional ...
[CITATION] with Kevin Morrison (1999)
R Kanbur… - The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools …
R Kanbur… - 2002 - clickpdf.com
Abstract This paper considers a seeming disconnect between the consensus in policy
circles that reducing gender inequalities is to be prioritized in strategies for reducing
inequality and poverty, and a view in mainstream economics (and in some policy circles) ...
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