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The end of poverty postponed?

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Africa’s lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust

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 Eight lessons on small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam SMEs Microeconomics Private sector
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 Six factors that determine future development of economies and labour markets in Asia Employment Growth Development
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Conclusion

From the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

SMEs Microeconomics Private sector
Book Chapter
Introduction

From the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

SMEs Microeconomics Data revolution
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Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam provides a comprehensive analytic contribution to a crucial topic within development economics...

SMEs Microeconomics Private sector
Working Paper
Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Using data from Sierra Leone, I explore the role of cognitive ability in sorting across sectors and the importance of perceptions in the employment decision-making process...

Development Employment Foreign aid
Project workshop
Social mobility Social mobility in developing countries — concepts, methods, and determinants
5 September 2019 – 6 September 2019
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B , Helsinki, Finland
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Book Chapter
Institutions and Development

From the book: Asian Transformations

Institutions Organizations Political settlements
Presentation
Kunal Sen presents his work at SIDA

On 19 February, Professor Kunal Sen will visit the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) in Stockholm to present his research and discuss research quality and evaluation methods. During his visit, Professor Sen will present his...

19 February 2019
SIDA, Valhallavägen 199 , Stockholm, Sweden
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Blog
Development programmes, security, and violence reduction: Evidence from an insurgency in India

Implementing development programmes in conflict-affected areas is crucial for conflict as well as poverty reduction. The big question is how do you carry out these programmes successfully?...

Conflict management Development Poverty reduction
Blog
Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer

Let’s face it, data is important. It sits at the core of almost everything that we in the development economics research community do. However, the way in which we use, share, understand, interpret and present data is more important still...

Government revenue Taxation data
Book Chapter
The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

From the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development

Development Education Family planning
Book Chapter
Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

From the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development

Households Efficiency Development
Working Paper
Institutions and Asia’s development: The role of norms and organizational power

The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal’s Asian Drama, with later contributions from institutional economics and developmental state theory...

Institutions Organizations Political settlements
Journal Article
Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria

Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change

Development Ethnicity Geopolitical zone
Book Chapter
Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives: Some practical observations from Ghana

From the book: Extractive Industries

Development Extractives Regulatory
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