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Working Paper
Assessment of institutional set-up of results measurement and reporting systems for non-sovereign operations in development finance institutions

Development finance institutions (DFIs) foster sustainable development through financing, advisory services, and technical assistance...

Development finance Development effectiveness Institutions
Journal Article
Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban sub-Saharan Africa?

THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | We explore the relationship between household welfare and informality, measuring household informality as the share of members’ activities (hours worked or income) without social insurance...

Informality Measurement Poverty
Working Paper
Ethnic dominance and exclusion: Unpacking cross-national data

It is widely accepted that the distribution of power between ethnic groups within a country plays a key role in major social, political, and economic outcomes...

Exclusion Ethnicity Data
Book Chapter
Rethinking occupational mobility in developing countries: Conceptual issues and empirical findings

From the book: Social mobility in developing countries

Absolute mobility Relative mobility Measurement
Book Chapter
Social mobility in developing countries: Measurement and downward mobility pitfalls

From the book: Social mobility in developing countries

Intergenerational Mobility Measurement Developing countries
Blog
Better measures of informality can improve poverty reduction policy

In a recent study , my co-authors and I propose a new way to measure informality by household, rather than by individual worker...

Informality Labour rights Labour market outcomes
Book Chapter
What might explain today’s conflicting narratives on global inequality?

From the book: Inequality in the Developing World

Global inequality Measurement Household survey
Working Paper
Welfare and the depth of informality: Evidence from five African countries

This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of informality at the household level...

Informality Measurement Poverty
Working Paper
Can ‘good’ social mobility news be ‘bad’ and vice versa?: Measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls

Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries perform in analysis of low-income settings...

Intergenerational Mobility Measurement Developing countries
Working Paper
Occupational mobility in developing countries: Conceptual issues and empirical findings

This paper discusses current methods for measuring and analysing occupational mobility, and the way in which methods designed for the analysis of developing countries may need to be modified when applied in other contexts...

Absolute mobility Relative mobility Measurement
Working Paper
What might explain today’s conflicting narratives on global inequality?

How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one often hears? This paper reviews the arguments and evidence...

Global inequality Measurement Household survey
Conference
Photo: Shreyans Bhansali Inequality - Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies
5 September 20146 September 2014
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Project
World inequality

Theme: Inclusion

The purpose of this project is to advance data collection, measurement, and research regarding the development of inequality in the world. A major focus in this research area is the maintenance, updating, and development of the World Income...

Global inequality Database Measurement
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