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| Titre : | Equity, efficiency and inequality traps: A research agenda (2007) |
| Auteurs : | François Bourguignon ; Francisco H. G. Ferreira ; Michael Walton |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Journal of Economic Inequality (vol. 5, n° 2, August 2007) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 235-256 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ INEGALITES ; EFFICIENCE ; MODELE ECONOMIQUE |
| Résumé : | This paper discusses a research agenda that arises from unanswered questions and unresolved issues considered in the World Bank’s World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development. After formalizing the key concepts of equity; equality of opportunity; and efficiency, and proposing a definition for an equitable development policy, the paper discusses the concept of inequality traps, around which the research agenda is structured. Four broad groups of research questions are highlighted: those revolving around the measurement of inequality of opportunity and the diagnostics for the existence of an inequality trap; those dealing with the causes of inequality traps; the quantification of their efficiency costs; and those related to how institutions (including governments) evolve to overcome inequality traps. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10888-006-9042-8 |
