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Can legal empowerment help to address ethnic exclusion?‘Legal empowerment’ is defined as a process of systemic change through which the poor and excluded become able to use the law to protect and advance their rights and interests as citizens and economic actors...
Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rightsJournal Article
Horizontal Inequality and Data ChallengesInequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention...
Ethnic group Group-based inequality Horizontal inequalityJournal Article
Can Business Rights Alleviate Group-Based Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa?: Understanding the Limits to ReformPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Group-based inequality Minorities BusinessJournal Special Issue
Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityThe articles in the forthcoming special issue are already available online on full open access. The special issue will be officially published in March 2019, vol. 55, issue 3...
Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rightsProject
Inequalities - measurement, implications, and influencing change
Theme: Current programme
Inequality Inclusive institutions Data sourcesJournal Special Issue
Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and ChangeA considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development...
Group-based inequality Horizontal inequality Ethnic groupJournal Article
Horizontal inequality as an outcomeA considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development...
Group-based inequality Horizontal inequality Ethnic groupJournal Article
Horizontal inequality and ethnic diversity in Brazil: Patterns, trends, and their impacts on institutionsPart of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change
Brazil Group-based inequality Ethnic diversityWorking Paper
Horizontal inequality as a dependent variableA considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development...
Group-based inequality Horizontal inequality Ethnic groupWorking Paper
Horizontal inequality and data challengesInequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention...
Ethnic group Group-based inequality Horizontal inequalityBlog
WDR 2017 does not disappoint: Four implications for work in development
As a political scientist specializing in the comparative politics of development, including particular attention to issues of governance and democracy, I have followed this year’s World Development Report with special interest...
World Development Report Good governance Group-based inequalityWorking Paper
Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in BrazilIn this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years...
Brazil Group-based inequality Ethnic diversityProject
Disadvantaged groups and social mobilityTheme: Inclusion
This project has three main objectives in line with UNU-WIDER’s tradition in the area of inclusion and horizontal inequality: (1) to shed further light on the extent to which inequalities run along ethnic, gender, and other communal lines; (2...
Disadvantaged groups Social mobility Group-based inequality