Essays about: "the Standardized World Income Inequality Database SWIID"
Found 3 essays containing the words the Standardized World Income Inequality Database SWIID.
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1. THE SIZE OF TERROR Linking Inequality, Ideology and Corruption to the Membership of Terrorist Groups
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effect of economic inequality on the size of terrorist groups. While several scholars have examined the impact of inequality on the number of ter-rorist attacks, as well as on other types of political violence, its influence on the membership of terrorist organizations has not been explored yet. READ MORE
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2. Income Inequality and Natural Resources
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The observation that countries highly endowed with natural resources often struggle with undesirable economic (e.g. low growth) and social problems has produced a large body of literature on the so-called resource curse over the last decades. READ MORE
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3. The impact of governance on inequality : An empirical study
University essay from Södertörns högskola/NationalekonomiAbstract : This paper examines the effect of governance on inequality, specifically if improvements in the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators affect inequality as measured by two Gini coefficients: Market Gini, before taxes and redistribution, and Net Gini, after taxes and redistribution. The data for the Gini measurements was taken from the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) and the data for the Worldwide Governance Indicators was taken from the World Bank. READ MORE
