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Inflation and the poor (English)

Using polling data for 31,869 households in 38 countries, and allowing for country effects, the authors show that the poor are more likely than the rich to mention inflation as a top national concern. This result survives several robustness checks. Also, direct measures of improvements in well-being for the poor - the change in their share of national income, the percentage decline in poverty, and the percentage change in the real minimum wage - are...
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Easterly, William; Fischer, Stanley.

Inflation and the poor (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2335 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667341468767111866

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