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The political economy of women’s empowerment policies in India: Understanding it through the beginning and end of the Mahila Samakhya programmeThis paper analyses the political economy of women’s-empowerment-related policy-making in India through a re-examination of the context of both the genesis and closure of a major programme, Mahila Samakhya...
Women's empowerment Feminism CollectivizationWorking Paper
Discriminatory attitudes and indigenous language promotion: Challenges and solutionsIn this paper, we analyse which channels influence individual preferences concerning the choice of the official language in Zambia...
Education Equality and inequality Local historyWorking Paper
Ghana’s experiments with business–government co-ordinationThe article explores the various co-ordination mechanisms between the state and the business community in Ghana, and the implications for economic growth in the country...
Economic growth Local history MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Income Inequality in Latin America: Recent Decline and Prospects for Its Further ReductionThe paper reviews the extent of the income inequality decline that took place in Latin America in 2002-10 and then focuses on the factors that may explain such decline...
Education Equality and inequality Fiscal policyBlog
Reversing Inequality in Latin America
Annett Victorero Latin America has for a long time been synonymous with high inequality, economic instability and authoritarian politics...
Equality and inequality Local historyJournal Article
A Tale of Entrepreneurship in Two Iraqi CitiesPart of Journal Special Issue Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries
Conflict management Entrepreneurship Local historyBlog
Entrepreneurship in Iraq: Understanding the Constraints
Sameeksha Desai Across countries, entrepreneurship is shown to support wealth and income generation, job creation and innovations in product and process...
Conflict management Entrepreneurship Local historyBook Chapter
Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in ZimbabweFrom the book: Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Failed states Local history LabourWorking Paper
Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in ZimbabweThis paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe—one peri-urban, one urban and one rural—to provide a window on current processes of impoverishment and adverse coping...
Failed states Local history LabourBlog
Equity, Economic Growth, and Aid in Finland
by Markus Jantti Finland is now a solid member of the European Union and the OECD. While Finland is not one of the richest countries, as measured by GDP per capita, its economic performance has been quite adequate...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic growth Equality and inequalityBlog
Rising Inequality in Post Reform China
by Guanghua Wan Introduction Inequality in income and consumption has been increasing dramatically in China since mid- 1980s. In particular, China’s regional inequality has attracted considerable attention...
Equality and inequality Local history Income distributionBlog
Ten Years of the Transition
by Robert J. McIntyre When the transition began in 1989 in the former Socialist economies it was widely assumed that the small enterprise sector would play the predominant role in their transformation into free market economies...
Economic development Local history Post-communismWorking Paper
Endettement du Cameroun: Problèmes et SolutionsThis paper evaluates Cameroon’s foreign debt situation by analysing its evolution (structure, debt service payment, debt ratio, borrowing conditions, etc.)...
Public debt Economic policy Local historyBlog
A Lost Half-Decade in Latin America
by Jose Antonio Ocampo With economic activity falling by close to 1 percent in 2002, Latin America will complete a lost half-decade in terms of economic growth. Per capita output for this year will be 2 percent less than in 1997...
Economic growth Gross national product Local historyBook Chapter
Social Provision in Finland: A Historical PerspectiveFrom the book: Social Provision in Low-Income Countries
Local history Income Nonprofit organizationsBlog
Where do we Stand a Decade After the Collapse of the USSR?
by Vladimir Popov The economic performance of the successor states of the former Soviet Union (FSU) has been disappointing. GDP has fallen by roughly 50 per cent in the FSU from its pre-recession level of 1989 (see Figure)...
Gross national product Local history Macroeconomics