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Incomes, Inequality, and Poverty in Kenya: A Long-Term PerspectiveFrom the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Equality and inequality Income Poverty measurementBlog
Report from the UNU-WIDER symposium on ‘The Political Economy of Social Protection in Developing Countries’ – Mexico City
The sculpture below in Mexico City is called ‘ El Ángel de la Securidad Social ’ ( The Angel of Social Security ) and was created by Jorge Marín in 2013 to commemorate the 70 th anniversary of the founding of the Instituto M...
Income TaxationWorking Paper
Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply: Evidence from VietnamVolatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture...
Households Income Labour supplyWorking Paper
Child deprivation and income poverty in GhanaThis study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey...
Children Income PovertyWorking Paper
Tax-benefit microsimulation in Ecuador: A feasibility studyThe aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility to implement a tax and benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador using EUROMOD as an interface...
Income TaxationVideo
Inequality, Gender and NutritionConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 4.4
Gender Inequality NutritionVideo
MobilityConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 3.4
Education Health InequalityVideo
Behavioural FoundationsConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 2.4
Behavioral economics Poverty IncomeVideo
Special Session on South Africa 1Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 2.2
Inequality Education IncomeVideo
Invited 2Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 2.1
Inequality Wealth IncomeVideo
Invited 1Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 1.1
Inequality Income GrowthVideo
Opening and key noteFinn Tarp opens the UNU-WIDER conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies, followed by the key note from the Marcelo Côrtes Neri, Minister of Strategic Affairs of Brazil, on inequality in Brazil.
Inequality Poverty IncomeWorking Paper
Ethnic disadvantage in Vietnam: Evidence using panel dataThis study investigates the ethnic disadvantage in rural Vietnam, focusing on the magnitude of the majority–minority gap and the constraints on ethnic minority households that contribute to the gap...
Equality and inequality Ethnic relations HouseholdsWorking Paper
Income and malaria: Evidence from an agricultural intervention in UgandaWe exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of an agricultural extension program in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentWorking Paper
On the fertility transition in Africa: Income, child mortality, or education?A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines?...
Economic growth Education Human fertilityWorking Paper
Income Mobility in Ecuador: New Evidence from Individual Income Tax ReturnsThis paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004–11...
Equality and inequality Income Income distribution