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by Tony Addison October 2011

Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle. Regular...

• Consumption
• Democracy
• Distribution

Working Paper

India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and affirmative action policies. In order to measure the social preferences of local decision makers, we conducted field experiments which...

• Distribution
• Economic development
• Government policy (Poor)

Working Paper

The UK was one of the earliest countries to undertake utility reform, which included changes in ownership, in the regulatory regime and in market structure and competition. While most agree that the programme has had beneficial effects on efficiency...

• Agricultural innovations
• Contracting out
• Distribution

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics

• Distribution
• Equality and inequality
• Income distribution

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality and Poverty in China

• Distribution
• Equality and inequality
• Income distribution

Working Paper

I model life expectancy in terms of physical and human capital and technology, the fundamental economic variables described by economic growth theories. For concreteness, the Solow model and a convergence club growth model by Howitt and Mayer (2001)...

• Distribution
• Economic growth
• Health

Book Chapter

• Distribution
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality and Multidimensional Well-being

• Distribution
• Econometric models
• Income

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Conflict and Peace-building

• Distribution
• Education
• Equality and inequality

Book Chapter

Part of Book Perspectives on Growth and Poverty

• Distribution
• Economic growth
• Health

Book Chapter

Part of Book Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

• Distribution
• Economic development
• Poverty

Working Paper

This paper proposes a novel assessment of the Kuznets curve for an underdeveloped country engaging in rapid late development. We mobilize new long-run data for Brazil, combining surveys, administrative records, and national accounts statistics, to...

• Distribution
• Development
• Political economy

Working Paper

The recent National Health Insurance White Paper proposes redirection of medical tax credits revenue towards the financing of the national health insurance.This raises critical questions about the impact on affordability for the poor as well as...

• Tax credit
• Medical expenses
• Tax deductions

Working Paper

This paper investigates the validity of household survey data published by Statistics South Africa since 1993 and later integrated into the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS).A series of statistical adjustments are proposed, compared, and...

• Income inequality
• Heterogeneity
• Survey data

Working Paper

This paper assesses the feasibility of simulating the distributional impacts produced by various tax and transfer instruments in Vietnam. Vietnam’s system of tax and transfer policies underwent frequent changes, in terms of diversity and adjustment...

• Distribution
• Microeconomics
• Taxation

Working Paper

Millions of South Africans in thousands of demonstrations have protested the unequal allocation of public services. Despite the African National Congress’s promise to reduce the disparities generated by apartheid, the level of public services remains...

• Public service delivery
• Ethnicity
• Africa