Income inequality analysis in developing countries in the SDG Framework

• Název práce v češtině: Analýza příjmové nerovnosti v rozvojových zemích v kontextu cílů udržitelného rozvoje
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Income inequality analysis in developing countries in the SDG Framework
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2017/2018
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
• Vedoucí / školitel: doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 10.05.2018
• Datum zadání: 10.05.2018
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 09.06.2020 09:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 07.05.2020
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 09.06.2020
• Oponenti: Mgr. Kateřina Chadimová

Seznam odborné literatury

S. Kuznets, Economic Growth and Income Inequality (1955).
P. Vanhoudt, An assessment of the macroeconomic determinants of inequality (2000)
D. Dollar and A. Kraay, Growth is Good for the Poor (2002)
D. Checchi, Education, Inequality and Income inequality (2001)
F.A. Cowell and D.G. Champernowne, Economic Inequality and Income Distribution (1999)

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

Research question and motivation
In the year 2015 the UN announced a set of goals targeting poverty, climate change and protection of nature. These goals are similar to Millenium Development Goals, but now there are twice as much of them and they are much more ambitious.
In the 10th Sustainable Development Goal the UN aims to achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average for every country.
This thesis is motivated by the interest if this ambitious goal can be fulfilled for developing countries and if it were not to be fulfilled for every country, how many countries can be expected to reach this target.
Simon Kuznets shows that if a low-income country gets richer, income inequality grows up to some point, where additional income starts to decrease inequality (“Kuznets Curve”). However, his work is more than 60 years old now and recent development, mainly in Africa, contradicts his conclusions, as was shown in the working paper “Growth is good for the poor” by D. Dollar and A. Kraay in 2002. This thesis will also discuss possible reasons why the Kuznets Curve does not work in the 21st century anymore.
Contribution
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss feasibility of Sustainable Development Goal regarding income inequality and predict income inequality in developing countries by 2030. Results will be supported by econometrical analysis using income data from the DataBank provided by World Bank.
Methodology
This thesis will estimate the feasibility of fulfilling the goal for selected Developing Countries by using econometrical analysis of panel data. As the input, it will use data tables from WorldBank: income share of lowest 20% of population of a country and income share of second lowest 20% from years 1998 – 2018 for every listed country. Then it will predict the share of bottom 40 per cent of every selected country depending on two parameters: yearly change in urbanization and net enrolment rate to secondary education, providing estimate of their effect on inequality.