The Policy Significance of Inequality Decompositions
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چکیده
Economists are now familiar with “between” and “within” group inequality decompositions, for race, gender, spatial units, etc. But what exactly is the normative significance of the empirical results produced by these decompositions? This paper raises some basic questions about policy interpretations of decompositions that are found in the literature. * These notes are based on observations and comments at the World Bank’s ABCDE in April, 2002, and at the Cornell/LSE/Wider Conference on Spatial Inequality and Development, June 2002.
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