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Inequality of opportunities among ethnic groups in the Philippines

This paper contributes to the scant body of literature on inequalities among and within ethnic groups in the Philippines by examining both the vertical and horizontal measures in terms of opportunities in accessing basic services such as education...

  • Ethnic group
  • Horizontal inequality
  • Indigenous peoples
Journal Article
Inequality Between Whom?

Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal inequality in the Global South

  • Ethnic group
  • Horizontal inequality
  • Indigenous peoples
Working Paper
Inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan

This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of age, using the Sudanese 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. It investigates the variation in inequality across and within...

  • Health
  • Children
  • Inequality of opportunities
Blog
The Great Gatsby Curve and the Global South: Time for a more ambitious redistribution and reparations agenda
by Diding Sakri, Andy Sumner, Arief Anshory Yusuf April 2023

The famous 1920s book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the classic analogy for the American dream of meritocracy —that any person can...

  • Social mobility
  • Inequality of opportunities
  • Inequality
Working Paper
Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing...

  • Inequality of opportunities
  • Intergenerational Mobility
  • Latin America
Blog
Dual learning disadvantages in East Africa: And how to deal with them
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by Sam Jones January 2022

Children from poorer families in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda face a double disadvantage in their opportunity to access learning: not only is the...

  • Inequality of opportunities
  • Sorting
  • Variance decomposition
Journal Article
Decomposing learning inequalities in East Africa

Inequalities in learning opportunities arise from both household- and school-related factors. Although these factors are unlikely to be independent, few studies have considered the extent to which sorting between schools and households might...

  • Africa
  • Inequality of opportunities
  • Sorting
Book Chapter
Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth

Part of Book The Developer’s Dilemma

  • Chile
  • Deindustrialization
  • Inclusive growth
Working Paper
Does sorting matter for learning inequality?

Inequalities in children’s learning are widely recognized to arise from variations in both household- and school-related factors. While few studies have considered the role of sorting between schools and households, even fewer have quantified how...

  • Africa
  • Inequality of opportunities
  • Sorting
Working Paper
Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth

This paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have contributed—or not—to inclusive growth and genuine economic modernization from a historical perspective. The empirical analysis of...

  • Chile
  • Deindustrialization
  • Inclusive growth
Research Brief
Three key insights for research on social mobility in developing countries

The volume, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants , brings together leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines working on a variety of issues related to social mobility. Three motivations guide...

  • Social mobility
  • Inequality & Human Development
  • Human capital
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Under this work stream UNU-WIDER, the National Treasury (NT), and the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) will work jointly to address distributional issues in both the bottom half and the top of the income distribution. While...

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  • Inequality of opportunities
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