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The politics of affirmative action: ethnicity, equity, and state-business relations in MalaysiaMalaysia provides for interesting paradoxes. Poverty was reduced by adopting a horizontal perspective to policy planning through affirmative action targeting one ethnic group lagging economically in society...
Politics Enterprises Affirmative actionWorking Paper
Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics?: An empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the worldHow has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health...
COVID-19 Healthcare Healthcare expenditureWorking Paper
Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world?: Insider–outsider theory revisitedContrary to the predictions of the insider–outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations...
Formal and informal Labour Labour market segmentationWorking Paper
Linking taxation and social protection: Evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in EthiopiaThe reduction of poverty, and more recently inequality, are pressing concerns in many low- and middle-income countries, not in the least as a result of the Sustainable Development Goals committing countries to significant improvements by 2030...
Equity Income tax TaxationBlog
Taxation: Inequality, Equity, and Efficiency – An Interview with Michael Keen
8 October 2014 by Roger Williamson Michael Keen from the International Monetary Fund addressed the UNU-WIDER Development Conference in September 2014 “Equity Objectives and Puzzles in Linking Tax and Spending”...
Government policy (Poor) Equality and inequality EquityBlog
Rising Inequality – How to Reverse It?30 October 2014 Dominik Etienne and Annett Victorero The last decade has witnessed a revival of concern over the impact of high-income concentration on economic development and wellbeing...
Economic development Economic growth Economic policyWorking Paper
Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?We develop the climate finance-gender equity framework in this paper and use the ‘contextual-procedural-distributive’ equity as a lens of analysis to examine how climate finance helps challenge, and reinforce, gender inequities in the mit...
Sociology of economics Environmental economics EquityWorking Paper
Concepts and Operationalization of Pro-Poor GrowthGrowth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth...
Economic development Equity Income distributionWorking Paper
Development of Financial Intermediation and the Dynamics of Rural-Urban Inequality: China, 1978-98Using China as a test case, this paper empirically investigates how the development of financial intermediation affects rural-urban income disparity (RUID)...
Central banking Equity HousingWorking Paper
Development Policy: An Introduction for StudentsThis paper discusses development policy objectives, noting how these have changed over the years, with a more explicit focus on poverty reduction coming recently to the fore...
Economic development Equity PovertyBook Chapter
Economic Policy, Distribution, and Poverty: The Nature of DisagreementsFrom the book: Growth, Inequality and Poverty
Economic development Economic policy EquityWorking Paper
Idiosyncratic Risk in the 1990s: Is It an IT Story?This paper examines trends in idiosyncratic risk in different ‘new economy’ and ‘old economy’ industries, and explores whether these developments can be attributed to the use of IT...
Capital market Equity Information technologyBook Chapter
Cost Recovery and Equity in the Health Sector: The Case of ZimbabweFrom the book: Social Provision in Low-Income Countries
Equity Financial crisis HealthcareBook Chapter
Regional Integration on Uneven Terms: The Case of Mexico within NAFTAFrom the book: National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
Equity Free trade International economic relations