Using annual data for India, we examine the impact of taxation and government expenditure on income inequality by endogenizing GDP, urbanization, economic globalization, remittances inflows and net FDI flows. For the empirical analysis, we use the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model, which ...
InequalityIncomeIndividual healthIndiaIndia has experienced a significant increase in income inequality in the past decade. It is widely accepted in the literature that income inequality is detrimental to individual health. Against this backdrop, the objective of the paper is to analyze the effect of...
This paper studies the role of income inequality in the importing country as a determinant of export unit value and product quality estimated employing inf
This paper examines the effects of globalization (i.e., economic, social, and political) and sectoral growth shifts (i.e., changes in relative shares of agriculture, industry, and services) on income inequality in India from 1976 to 2012. We have used two unique datasets: the Standardized ...
While many studies indicate that a revenue-neutral carbon tax might worsen income inequality and potentially increase poverty rates, China has not yet adopted a carbon tax policy (Hu et al., 2021). China chose to implement a carbon ETS rather than a carbon tax because the former can better ...
Increasing housing security, medical, agriculture, forestry and other expenditures has a significant impact on improving the income inequality between rural and urban inhabitants; the impact of government investment in the western, central, and eastern regions on the reduction of income variation is ...
The widening income inequality came as the high-income earners made more money while the low-income bracket earned less. Disposable income for the upper 20 percent jumped 10.4 percent over the year to 9,324,300 won (8,285 U.S. dollars) in the fourth quarter, marking the biggest quarterly...
The index of dissimilarity is an intuitive measure of geographical inequality that can be interpreted as the percentage of women with secondary attainment that would have to move in order to equalize secondary rates across all subnational districts. We estimated that countries that experienced more ...
region. Given the worsening interstate income inequality in India, we examine whether growth-impacting variables based on our growth model estimation (measured in per capita gross domestic product (GDP) can explain interstate income disparity during the same period. Thus, this study makes a twofold ...
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