Growth with Equity for the Development of Mexico: Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Growth (1992–2008)

Iniguez-Montiel, Alberto Javier

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.011

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“…A wide range of empirical analyses have found that growth is connected to poverty reduction, frequently alleging that economic growth is significant in reducing poverty (see e.g . Ravallion and Chen, ; Dollar and Kraay, ; Bourguignon, ; Adams, ; Kraay, ; Fosu, ; Ram, ; Johnson et al ., ; Iniguez‐Montiel, ). There is much less consensus surrounding the empirical evidence for poverty having a causal impact on aggregate growth, in spite of arguments that link poverty to growth in matters such as sociopolitical instability (see e.g .…”

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Revisiting Growth‐Poverty Relationship: A Medium‐Term Causality Approach

Pérez‐Moreno

2016

South African J Economics

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This article examines the potential medium-term causal relationship between changes in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and poverty in developing countries during the 1970s-1990s. For this purpose, we use panel data model evaluation techniques to test the out-of-sample forecasting performance of competing models. We conclude that the evidence supports the hypothesis that increases in GDP per capita cause unidirectional poverty reduction, measured by the $1/day poverty rate, in the period 1970s-1980s. The results are similar when analysing low-and middle-income countries and mid-high-and very highinequality countries separately. However, in the period 1980s-1990s, it is only statistically significant for low-income countries. JEL Classification: I32, O40

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Revisiting Growth‐Poverty Relationship: A Medium‐Term Causality Approach

Pérez‐Moreno

2016

South African J Economics

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“…Income inequality is a major concern in particular for multiracial countries because ethnically more homogenous populations tend to have more equal income distributions (see Alesina & Glaeser, 2004). For that reason, there has been growing research interest in measuring the relationship between economic growth and ethnic diversity (see for example, Agostini, Brown, & Roman, 2010;Gö ren, 2014;Iniguez-Montiel, 2014). This is supported by the growing body of economic literature that finds that ethnic heterogeneity induces social conflicts and violence, which in turn, affects economic growth (see for example, Easterly & Levine, 1997;Mauro, 1995;Montalvo & Reynal-Querol, 2005).…”

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Sources of Income Growth and Inequality Across Ethnic Groups in Malaysia, 1970–2000

2015

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This paper examines the sources of income growth for major ethnic groups in Malaysia. An input-output structural decomposition analysis is extended and applied to the social accounting matrices of 1970 and 2000. The results indicate that the expansion of exports and the changes in the compensation of labor and capital inputs are the main determinants for the income changes. The effects differ largely between rural and urban areas, between skilled and unskilled workers, and between the major ethnic groups. The combination of these two determinants, however, is a dominant factor in explaining the increase in income inequality in Malaysia.

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“…The authors show marked progress in reducing inequities between 1960 and 2010, but also stubbornly high overall inequality between rich and poor, whites and nonwhites, men and women, and across regions. Iniguez-Montiel (2014) demonstrates that redistributive trends that had continuously reduced inequality and poverty from 1996 to 2006 in Mexico regressed beginning in 2006. Dalle (2010) reveals that Argentina's levels of inequality have not fully recovered from the spike in the 1990s, despite economic improvements in the 2000s and pro-poor policy reforms.…”

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Barriers to Egalitarianism: Distributive Tensions in Latin American Federations

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Rogers

Díaz-Cayeros

2022

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Latin America's largest federations have significantly reduced their levels of income inequality in recent years, perhaps reflecting a structural change toward egalitarianism. However, we argue that the political geography of federalism in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico strongly shapes preferences against centralized redistribution likely to promote equity in the long term. While federalism does not necessary lead to lower redistribution in theory, the geographic spread of income and malapportioned political institutions limit egalitarianism in these nations. These dynamics help explain why fiscal structures are distinct in Latin American federations as compared to federations in high-income countries. First, we show that the territorial structure of inequality and malapportionment are associated with lower redistributive effort in the global context and that the Latin American federations have extreme values for both variables. Second, using a new data set of income distributions within and across Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico over time, we demonstrate that the conditions that favor fiscal transfers from the national to subnational governments are consistently strong, but conditions are rarely favorable for centralized policies to equilibrate national income. Unequal income patterns are reinforced by legislative malapportionment, which encourages interregional transfers to regions and limits the political voice of more populated and unequal regions that would benefit from centralized redistribution.Las federaciones más grandes de América Latina han reducido significativamente sus niveles de desigualdad de ingresos en los últimos años, lo que quizás refleja un cambio estructural hacia el igualitarismo. Sin embargo, este estudio argumenta que la geografía política del federalismo en Argentina, Brasil y México moldea fuertemente las preferencias en contra de la redistribución centralizada que promueve la equidad a largo plazo. Aunque, en teoría, el federalismo no necesariamente reduce la redistribución, la distribución geográfica de los ingresos y la representación desproporcionada de las instituciones políticas limitan el igualitarismo en eses países. Estas dinámicas ayudan a explicar las estructuras fiscales son distintas en las federaciones de América Latina en comparación con las federaciones de países desarrollados. Primero, se muestra que una estructura territorial de desigualdad y la inadecuada distribución política están asociadas con un menor esfuerzo redistributivo en un contexto global y que las federaciones de América Latina tienen valores extremos de ambas variables. Segundo, utilizando una nueva base de datos sobre la distribución dentro y a través de las regiones de Argentina, Brasil y México a lo largo del tiempo, se demuestra que las condiciones que favorecen las transferencias fiscales desde el nivel nacional a los gobiernos subnacionales son consistentemente propicias, pero las condiciones son raramente favorables para que las políticas centralizadas equilibren los ingresos nacionales. Patrones d...

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Growth with Equity for the Development of Mexico: Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Growth (1992–2008)

Cited by 52 publications

References 34 publications

Revisiting Growth‐Poverty Relationship: A Medium‐Term Causality Approach

Revisiting Growth‐Poverty Relationship: A Medium‐Term Causality Approach

Sources of Income Growth and Inequality Across Ethnic Groups in Malaysia, 1970–2000

Barriers to Egalitarianism: Distributive Tensions in Latin American Federations

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