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There have been many papers recently (both theoretical and empirical) analyzing the problem of income inequality in China. Most of them usually state that the income inequality in China is growing in two dimensions – among the regions and between the urban and rural areas. [...]

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Concerns about inequality have increased exponentially. First evidence came from wage inequality in Anglo-Saxon countries in the 80’s decade. Cities are the stage of inequality, where it develops in social unrest and political struggle. Large cities have been the main focus [...]

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Digitalization is at the vanguard of technological revolution. The innate ability to transform analog information into digital data has brought a whole stream of technological disruptions. Converting any piece of information to a stream of bits, storing and processing them at a [...]

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La digitalización es la fuerza de cambio existente tras la revolución tecnológica de nuestros tiempos. La capacidad humana de capturar información del entorno, convertirla en una secuencia codificada de bits, procesarla y transmitirla instantáneamente [...]

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The subject of this paper is the computation of instability points in mechanical problems with the finite element method. The objective is to extend the application of critical point detection [...]

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The subject of this paper is the computation of instability points in mechanical problems with the finite element method. The objective is to extend the application of critical point detection [...]

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The "prospect of upward mobility" (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions under which some individuals that are poorer than the average optimally choose to oppose redistribution policies. The underlying intuition is that these [...]

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Despite the increasing attention in recent years to the spatial dimensions of economic development, consideration of the importance of space and the recognition that macro, aspatial perspectives can prove to be misleading are not new. Around the world, much of the disappointment with [...]

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Health care access is a challenge in rural areas in Africa. On the demand side, rural people are often poor, and transport connectivity is typically bad in rural and remote areas. Because of limited transport connectivity, the quality of health care services provided is also often [...]