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Global Income Inequality – A Case Study of OECD Countries and Kazakhstan

Comparative Economic Research, 2022
This article presents the results of a study into the features of the formation of economic inequality in Kazakhstan in the context of global trends in the country’s development.
Seisembay Jumambayev, Almazhan Dzhulaeva, Sariya Baimukhanova, Guliya Ilyashova, Aidana Dosmbek   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards the quest to reduce income inequality in Africa: is there a synergy between tourism development and governance?

Current Issues in Tourism, 2022
Despite the growing attention on the tourism development-income inequality nexus, a conspicuous gap in the literature is that rigorous empirical works examining how good governance moderates the relationship are hard to find.
I. K. Ofori, T. Dossou, S. Akadiri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Data‐driven performance metrics for neural network learning

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView., 2023
Summary Effectiveness of data‐driven neural learning in terms of both local mimima trapping and convergence rate is addressed. Such issues are investigated in a case study involving the training of one‐hidden‐layer feedforward neural networks with the extended Kalman filter, which reduces the search for the optimal network parameters to a state ...
Angelo Alessandri, Mauro Gaggero, Marcello Sanguineti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Origins of Intergroup Resource Inequality Influence Children’s Decision to Perpetuate or Rectify Inequality

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Previous studies have explored children’s intergroup resource allocation in the context of preexisting intergroup resource inequality. However, resource inequality between social groups often originates from different factors.
Jing An, Jing An, Jing Yu, Liqi Zhu, Liqi Zhu   +4 more
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Inequality Kills: The unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19

, 2022
The wealth of the  world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. The incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off because of COVID-19. Widening economic, gender, and racial inequalities—as well as the inequality that exists between countries ...
N. Ahmed, A. Marriott, Nafkote Dabi, Megan Lowthers, M. Lawson, Leah Mugehera   +5 more
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Access to treatment in chronic kidney disease, dialysis and transplantation. Is there gender equality?

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
Sex and gender are often used as synonyms. However, while sex describes only a biological state, gender is a dynamic concept that takes into account psychosocial and cultural aspects of human existence that can change according to place and time ...
Jihan Sleiman, Gervasio Soler Pujol, Erika Montañez, Veronica Roatta, Gustavo Laham   +4 more
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Real-Time Inequality

, 2022
This paper constructs high-frequency and timely income inequality, wealth inequality, and distributional growth statistics for the United States.
Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez, G. Zucman   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2021
Background Deaths directly linked to COVID-19 infection may be misclassified, and the pandemic may have indirectly affected other causes of death. To overcome these measurement challenges, we estimate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality ...
J. Aburto, R. Kashyap, Jonas Schöley, C. Angus, J. Ermisch, M. Mills, J. Dowd   +6 more
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Income Inequality and Environmental Quality: A Case Study of Iran [PDF]

مدلسازی اقتصادسنجی, 2017
Preliminary studies of the Kuznets curve, on a simple model (pollution function of the level of development) relied. Recent studies argue that other factors except the income could be decisive in the environmental pollution. One of the economic variables
Mohsen Ebrahimi, Majid babaei agh esmaili, Vahid kafili   +2 more
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A simple method for measuring inequality [PDF]

Palgrave Communications, 2020
To simultaneously overcome the limitation of the Gini index in that it is less sensitive to inequality at the tails of income distribution and the limitation of the inter-decile ratios that ignore inequality in the middle of income distribution, an ...
Thitithep Sitthiyot, Kanyarat Holasut
semanticscholar   +1 more source