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Inflation and income inequality: a shopping-time approach
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2005-12)
Our work is based on a heterogenous agent shopping-time economy in which economic agents present distinct productivities in the production of the consumption good, and differentiated access to transacting assets. The purpose ...
Income inequality and adolescent fertility in low-income countries.
The well-known socioeconomic gradient in health does not imply that income inequality by itself has any effect on well-being. However, there is evidence of a positive association between income inequality and adolescent ...
Intergenerational Income Mobility in a Less-Developed, High-Inequality Context: The Case of Chile
(De Gruyter, 2010)
This paper studies the magnitude of intergenerational income mobility in less developed, high
inequality Chile. Following a known methodology where fathers’ incomes are predicted from
standard income determinants such ...
Aplicação do modelo de Thirlwall para a Argentina e o Brasil de 1992-2006
(Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBRDireitoUFSMPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Integração Latino-Americana, 2008-07-11)
In the 90 s, Argentina and Brazil went through economical stabilization reforms, commercial flexibility and an integration in the prevailing external trade. In this
context, this work aims at analyzing if the exports and ...
Cost-Accuracy Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Screening in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(American Thoracic Society, 2022)
To the editor: The global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Well-recognized challenges to the mitigation of COPD in LMICs include ...
Controlling cardiovascular diseases in low and middle income countries by placing proof in pragmatism
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)
Low and middle income countries (LMICs) bear a huge, disproportionate and growing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) which constitutes a threat to development. Efforts to tackle the global burden of CVD must therefore ...
Do public and internal debt cause income inequality? Evidence from Kenya
(Universidad ESAN. ESAN EdicionesPE, 2022-07-08)
Purpose. This study aims to determine whether there is an effect of internal and public debt on income inequality in Kenya for the period 1970–2018. Design/methodology/approach: The relationship is examined by using the ...
Critical review of multimorbidity outcome measures suitable for low-income and middle-income country settings: Perspectives from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) researchers
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
Objectives: There is growing recognition around the importance of multimorbidity in low-income and middle-income country (LMIC) settings, and specifically the need for pragmatic intervention studies to reduce the risk of ...