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Inequality and economic development
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The article was published on 2001-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 119 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income inequality metrics & Income distribution.read more
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Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century
Yvonne Rydin,Ana Bleahu,Michael Davies,Julio D. Dávila,Sharon Friel,Sharon Friel,Giovanni De Grandis,Nora Groce,Pedro C. Hallal,Ian Hamilton,Philippa Howden-Chapman,Ka Man Lai,CJ Lim,Juliana Martins,David Osrin,Ian Ridley,Ian Scott,Myfanwy Taylor,Paul Wilkinson,James F. Wilson +19 more
TL;DR: The UCL Lancet Commission met from November, 2009, to June, 2011, bringing together an interdisciplinary team of experts to under stand how better health outcomes can be delivered through interventions in the urban environment in cities across the world, and to generate policy recommendations.
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Inequality and the health-care system in the USA
Samuel Dickman,David U. Himmelstein,David U. Himmelstein,Steffie Woolhandler,Steffie Woolhandler +4 more
TL;DR: This report focuses on how the health-care system, which could reduce income-based disparities in health, instead often exacerbates them and additional reforms that move forward, rather than backward, from the ACA are sorely needed.
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Is poverty or wealth driving HIV transmission
TL;DR: The question of whether the epidemic is transitioning from an early phase in which wealth was a primary driver, to one in which poverty is increasingly implicated is investigated, demonstrating the complexity and context-specificity of associations and the critical influence of certain contextual factors.
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Start up costs, limited enforcement, and the hidden economy☆
António Antunes,Tiago Cavalcanti +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how much of the difference in the size of the informal sector and in per capita income across countries can be accounted by regulation costs and enforcement of financial contracts.
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Evaluation of financial liberalization : a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice
Xavier Gine,Robert M. Townsend +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a general equilibrium occupational choice model with two sectors, one without intermediation, and the other with borrowing and lending, is taken to Thai data to assess both aggregate growth effects and the distributional consequences of financial liberalization as observed in Thailand from 1976 to 1996.