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Book: Extractive Industries

Open access | New initiatives recognize that resource wealth can provide a means, when properly used, for poorer nations to decisively break with poverty by diversifying economies and funding development spending.
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Journal Special Issue: Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change

Open access | This journal special issue offers conceptual, theoretical, and empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as an outcome and challenging assumptions of fixity.

Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

The central goal of the project is to support inclusive growth, growth that substantially improves the living standards of the Mozambican population.
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Journal Article: Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after Apartheid

Open access | This article investigates progress in reducing the high level of racial stratification of occupations after apartheid in South Africa.
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Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

From the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development

Gender Norms Labour market participation
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 The decline of the labour share in Mexico, 1990–2015 Labour market Informal sector Wages
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Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide...

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