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Gender preference at birth: A new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisionsInvestigating preference for sons is a continuing focal area of development economics and demographic research...
Human fertility Family planning WelfareWorking Paper
Access to microfinance and female labour force participationAlthough microfinance started as a movement to improve women’s economic well-being through increased female entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women’s attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully underst...
Microfinance female entrepreneurship WellbeingWorking Paper
Trust in the time of coronaThe global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War...
COVID-19 Pandemic Survey dataJournal Article
Living Conditions and Basic Needs: Evidence from African CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
Living conditions Multidimensional poverty WellbeingNews
Researchers from the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme contribute to the book Challenges of Mozambique 2018The Institute for Social and Economic Studies ( IESE ) launched the ninth edition of the book Desafios para Moçambique 2018 (Challenges of Mozambique 2018) on 8 November 2018 in Maputo, Mozambique. The book has 18 chapters divided into four...
Mozambique Poverty measurement PovertyWorking Paper
Living conditions and well-being: Evidence from African countriesWe here use five rounds of Afrobarometer data covering more than 100,000 individuals over the 2004-2016 period to explore the link between self-assessed measures of living conditions and objective measures of individual well-being (access to basic ne...
Living conditions Multidimensional poverty WellbeingWorking Paper
Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance: What do we know?Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open...
Microfinance Poverty WellbeingReport
Poverty and well-being in Mozambique - Fourth national poverty assessmentThis report provides a comprehensive analysis of poverty and well-being, including temporal trends, in Mozambique. It is based on the 2014/15 household budget survey data ( Inquérito aos Agregados Familiares sobre Orçamento Familiar (...
Poverty WellbeingVideo
The Poorest and Most ExcludedConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 1.3
Poverty Children HouseholdsResults meeting
Aid for Gender EqualityIn recent decades, aid donors have recognised that gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to improving living standards, well-being, and economic growth. This insight has led to a fourfold increase in the flows of foreign aid...
Project
Health inequalities and developmentTheme: 2006-07
The purpose of this project was to investigate issues related to health inequality. Although health is an important indicator of overall wellbeing, it is only recently that research has focused on health inequality. This project brings forth issues...
Poverty Inequality and Well-being HealthAnnual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 5 - Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of DevelopmentThis lecture will focus on horizontal inequality, i.e. inequality among culturally defined groups (e.g. the Malays and Chinese in Malaysia, Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, or Catholic and Protestants in N.Ireland), and the implications this has for...