Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An Inquiry into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations

January 1, 2007

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Gouranga Gopal Das. Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An Inquiry into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) framework. An exogenous technology shock transmitted via trade from the United States induces productivity growth in developing regions. This spillover capture-aided by absorptive capability, better governance and institutions, technological symmetry and social acceptance-causes income to increase and income inequality to decline. The conjoined parameters retard growth's inequality-enhancing effect and thus facilitate long-run convergence of inequality between nations.

Subject: Income distribution, Income inequality, Personal income, Poverty, Technology

Keywords: Economic growth, Price index, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

38
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Working Paper No. 2007/016
Stock No:

WPIEA2007016
ISBN:

9781451865806
ISSN:

1018-5941

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