This article presents a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income. The authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares. Comparison of the new data set with existing compilations reveals that the data assembled here represent an improvement in quality and…
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The World Bank Economic Review is a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, covering Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Global trade and economics, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare. Over its lifetime it has published 1,647 papers, which have received 121,788 citations.
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (OUP) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The World Bank Economic Review, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Global trade and economics Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Global Financial Crisis and Policies Income, Poverty, and Inequality |
| ISSN | 0258-6770 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.59 |
| h-index | 166 |
| i10-index | 892 |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Top institutions publishing here | World Bank |
| Journal website | academic.oup.com |
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This article introduces a large new cross-country database, the Database of Political Institutions. It covers 177 countries over 21 years, 1975-95
The authors use different data sets to investigate the dependence of transport costs on geography and infrastructure. Infrastructure is an important determinant of transport costs, especially for landlocked countries. Analysis of bilateral trade data confirms the importance of infrastructure and gives an estimate of the elasticity of trade flows with respect to the trade cost…
Using bank-level data for 80 countries in the years 1988–95, this article shows that differences in interest margins and bank profitability reflect a variety of determinants: bank characteristics, macroeconomic conditions, explicit and implicit bank taxation, deposit insurance regulation, overall financial structure, and underlying legal and institutional indicators. A larger ratio of bank assets to gross…
Using a new series of consistent, consumption-based poverty measures spanning forty years, we assess how much India's poor shared in the country's economic growth, taking into account its urban-rural and output composition. Rural consumption growth reduced poverty in both rural and urban areas. Urban growth brought some benefits to the urban poor, but had no…