MALAYSIAINCOME inequalityGENDER inequalityINCOME distributionINCOMELABOR marketObjective - Studies related to the distribution of income are very important for national development as they are related to efforts to reduce the gender earnings disparity. Women have overcome many challenges within the labour ...
The global community has been confronted with rising income inequality, in particular, for those least developed countries (LDCs), since the same level of inequality as in advanced countries would push many LDCs into abject poverty. This paper focuses on
This paper examines the causality between defense spending and income inequality in selected Asian countries namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, India and South Korea for the period 1970-2005. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure is employed to (1) analyze the...
income inequality and environment: assessing the applicability of the Kuznets hypotheses to Asia Tatsuyuki Ota1 ABSTRACT In light of growing threats to sustainable development, two serious challenges (that is, rising income inequality and environmental degradation) have been addressed by numerous empirical...
First, Hong Kong is a densely populated area that magnifies the impact of neighbors (e.g., frequent face-to-face interactions in the elevator). Second, the public housing policy in Hong Kong has created substantial income inequality within local neighborhoods. Using a 3-step semi-parametric ...
My point is that gross inequality in wealth is not necessarily a barrier to economic growth nor to uplifting the living standards of the lower quintiles as can be surmised from the experiences of other countries. Personally I think there’s been some under-reporting of income in the survey,...
Social inequality in incidence of and survival from cancer in a population-based study in Denmark, 1994-2003: summary of findings. Eur J Cancer. 2008;44(14):2074-2085. doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2008.06.018PubMedGoogle Scholar 58. Gross AL, Gallo JJ, Eaton WW. Depression and ...
Institutions, Markets and Men's and Women's Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for major structural reforms. As in most... I Ganguli,K Terrell - 《Journal of Comparative Econo...
suggest that geographic inequality in EBF prevalence decreased in most of the countries from 2000 to 2018 (77 of 94) on the basis of Gini coefficients; while there were 11 countries in 2000 whose Gini coefficient was >0.25, only Nigeria and the Philippines had coefficients above 0.25 in 2018...
This study examines the relationship between foreign direct investment and total factor productivity on economic growth in 90 middle-income countries. Because middle-income countries often face particular challenges in achieving sustainable economic deve