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  • Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity (English)

    The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8700 Document Date: January 15, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bussolo,Maurizio,Checchi,Daniele,Peragine,Vito

  • Inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

    In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth...

    Document Type: Report No.: WPS7782 Document Date: August 4, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brunori,Paolo,Palmisano,Flaviana,Peragine,Vito

  • Equality of opportunity : theory and evidence (English)

    Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7217 Document Date: March 20, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Peragine,Vito

  • The World Bank economic review 28 (2) (English)

    This paper is organized in following headings: economic development as opportunity equalization; the measurement of educational inequality: achievement and opportunity; economic growth and equality of...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 113049 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Roemer,John E.,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Gignoux,Jérémie,Peragine,Vito,Palmisano,Flaviana,Brunori,Paolo,Van de gaer,Dirk,Vandenbossche,Joost,Figueroa,José Luis,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Das Gupta,Monica,Shemyakina,Olga N.,Justino,Patricia,Leone,Marinella,Salardi,Paola,Valente,Christine,Verwimp,Philip,Van Bavel,Jan

  • Opportunity-sensitive poverty measurement (English)

    This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6728 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brunori, Paolo,Ferreira, Francisco,Lugo,Maria Ana,Peragine,Vito

  • Economic growth and equality of opportunity (English)

    In this paper, the authors argue that a better understanding of the relationship between inequality and economic growth can be obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 112404 Document Date: October 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Peragine,Vito,Palmisano,Flaviana,Brunori, Paolo

  • Economic Growth and equality of opportunity (English)

    The paper proposes an approach to understand the relationship between inequality and economic growth obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to the space of opportunities...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6599 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brunori, Paolo,Palmisano,Flaviana,Peragine,Vito