An Ongoing Reversal of Fortune Among Russian Cities: City Age, Natural Resources, and Changing Spatial Income Distribution

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Skorobogatov
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Reversal Of Fortune

Colonialism, Property Rights and the Modern World Income Distribution

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Fails ◽  
Jonathan Krieckhaus
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Modern World ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
Discernible Effect ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
World Income ◽  
World Income Distribution ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
Reversal Of Fortune

Influential studies by Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson claim that colonial legacies explain the origins of development-promoting property rights and thus account for the modern world income distribution. Specifically, they argue that European colonial powers engineered a global ‘reversal of fortune’, bringing property rights and prosperity to relatively uninhabited colonies while imposing inefficient institutions on locales with less potential for settlement. We re-evaluate their theoretical arguments and empirical findings and come to a different conclusion. We concur that British colonialism dramatically restructured four colonies, resulting in phenomenal economic success. For the majority of the world, however, colonialism had no discernible effect on property rights. We conclude that contemporary development studies must find another explanation for the modern world income distribution.

scholarly journals Environment, poverty and the steady state economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Lianos
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
World Population ◽  
Ecological Balance ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
State Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems

Environmental degradation and inequality of income and wealth are two major global problems at the present time. This paper suggests that a steady state economy offers solutions for both problems. It argues that if the world population is drastically reduced and remains constant at a low level ecological balance can be achieved and, at the same time, income distribution will be greatly improved. The basis of this argument is that a smaller population will reduce the use of natural resources for production and consumption and at the same time reduce the supply of labor and thus increase wages. Also, a brief review of the idea of the steady state economy from the ancient philosophers to modern writers is provided.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Fiscal Decentralization, Institutional Transformation, and Regional Revenue on Income Disparities between Provinces in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohanes Maria Vianey Mudayen ◽  
Herry Maridjo
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Revenue Sharing ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Income Disparity ◽  
Allocation Mechanism ◽  
Local Revenue

This study aims to determine the impacts of fiscal decentralization, institutional transformation, and regional revenue to the income disparity among the provinces in Indonesia. This study uses panel data with the number of runs 528 pieces of data that includes 33 provinces in Indonesia period 2000-2015. The data were taken from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) and Bank Indonesia. They were analyzed using a multiple linear regression analysis. The results show that tax revenue sharing fund and natural resources revenue sharing fund impact positive and significant on the income disparity among the provinces in Indonesia, while the general allocation fund, special allocation fund, institutional transformation, and the local revenue do not significantly affect the income disparity among the provinces in Indonesia. Tax and natural resources revenue sharing fund are actually exacerbating the gap of income distribution among regions in Indonesia. The implication of this study is that the government needs to review the allocation mechanism of General Allocation Fund, Special Allocation Fund, Tax Revenue Sharing Fund and Natural Resources Revenue Sharing Fund in order to serve as an instrument of fiscal capacity equalization of each region as well income distribution equalization among regions in Indonesia. The local government needs to continue improving the local revenue through the optimization of local tax revenue, regional retribution, profits of Regional Owned Enterprises, and other legitimate acceptances.

Agglomeration effects, institutions, and natural resources in the changing economic geography of Russia

2017 ◽  
pp. 81-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Skorobogatov
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Agglomeration Effects ◽  
Geographical Characteristics

The paper discusses a number of hypotheses as potential explanations of the spatial income distribution in Russia. The hypotheses include the increasing return hypothesis, the institutions hypothesis and the simple and sophisticated versions of the geography hypothesis. According to the existing evidence, the sophisticated geography hypothesis fits best Russian data. This suggests that the changes in spatial income distribution follow the changes in local geographical characteristics and in their economic value.

scholarly journals Forest deforestation in the Brazilian amazon states and its impacts on natural resources: construction of statistical-econometric panel model for 2000-2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
André Cutrim Carvalho ◽  
David Ferreira Carvalho ◽  
Alana Paula De Araújo Aires
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Panel Model ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Factors Of Production ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
The Impact

Economic growth and improving income distribution contribute to an increased demand for land and to expansion of livestock production. Thus, in order to analyze effects of economic growth and income distribution on natural resources, first it is necessary to distinguish dynamics of  economic growth; and second, it is essential to know the form in which economic growth is taking place: whether through the extensive absorption of using factors of production; or whether through intense absorption with an increase in productivity of the factors of production due to technical innovations; and third, the fact that the economy grows in a finite ecosystem implies an increase in opportunity costs. The effect of deforestation ultimately affects economic productivity and also provokes other ecological and socioeconomic disruptions. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of deforestation on natural resources of the area known as Legal Amazon, during the period 2000-2018. For this, statistical-econometric instruments from panel modeling have been used. The central conclusion is that the main regressors associated with the rate of deforestation in the surveyed states continue to be the significant causes of this problem throughout the region. Thus, it is assumed that deforestation in the Amazon is, in fact, the main factor responsible for destruction of natural resources. However, it cannot be denied that extensive livestock production continues to be the main activity responsible for the significant increase in deforestation in the region.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR INVESTMENTS ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY IN CENTRAL SULAWESI, INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Rustam Abd. Rauf ◽  
Arief Daryanto ◽  
D.S. Priyarsono
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Investment Allocation ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Sectoral Development ◽  
Rural And Urban Area ◽  
Central Sulawesi

Central Sulawesi is a province in Indonesia with abundant natural resources particularly in agricultural sector. This condition suggests that the agricultural sector plays a very significant role in Central Sulawesi economy. One of the causal factors leading to the disparity of income distribution and poverty is investment allocation with its inconsistency occurs in sectoral development planningThe Gini Ratio of Central Sulawesi Province was 0.4844 in 2008 reflecting moderate level of income disparity for the income distribution among household groups. Simulation of increasing investment on agricultural and other sectors for 10% can generally decrease poverty at all groups of households both in rural and urban area.  Simulation 2 (investment in plantation subsector) led to highest poverty decline as comparison to other simulation.

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