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Towards the Reversal of Poverty and Income Inequality Setbacks Due to COVID-19: The Role of Globalisation and Resource Allocation

Policy recommendations for building resilient and all-inclusive societies post COVID-19 pandemic continue to dominate the media and research landscapes. However, rigorous empirical content backing such claims, particularly, on both poverty and income inequality, is hard to find. Motivated by the bleak outlook of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as driven primarily by the floundering hydrocarbon sector, vulnerable employment, and low foreign direct investment, we analyse the poverty and income inequality effects of globalisation and resource allocation in the region. Using data from the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Database for the period 1990–2019, we provide estimates robust to several econometric techniques- the pooled least square, fixed effect, random effect, and the system generalized method of moments estimators to show that: (1) while economic globalisation reduces both poverty and income inequality, social globalisation matters only for income inequality in MENA; (2) economic globalisation is remarkable in reducing income inequality through resource allocation. Policy recommendations are provided in the light of the geopolitical fragility and rise in social globalisation of the region.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: EXCAS Working Paper ; No. 21/043

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
Economic Integration
Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
Thema
Economic Integration
Financial Deepening
GMM
MENA
Globalisation
Inequality
Poverty

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi
Armah, Mark Kojo
Asmah, Emmanuel E.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Kiel, Hamburg
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Preprint

Beteiligte

  • Ofori, Isaac Kwesi
  • Armah, Mark Kojo
  • Asmah, Emmanuel E.
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2021

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