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Inequality
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– A general approach with application to South Africa
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Inequality
Journal Article
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– Analyzing income distribution changes for the case of Mexico
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Inequality
Journal Article
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– Relatively lower, absolutely higher
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Inequality
Journal Article
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– Two definitions of a vulnerability line and their empirical application
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Inequality
Journal Article
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– Patterns of polarization in Nigeria
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Inequality
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– Measurement, trends, impacts and policies
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Inequality
Journal Special Issue
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– Measurement, trends, impacts and policies
Many low- and middle-income countries are achieving good rates of economic growth, while high inequality remains a priority concern. Some countries meanwhile have low growth, high inequality, and pervasive poverty—often linked to their fragility. There is now active debate on how countries should...
– An Overview
This article presents an overview of the current special issue ‘Institutions and African Economies’. The findings include: (1) greater prevalence of democratic regimes improved both agricultural productivity and the overall growth of African economies, consistent with ‘new institutionalism’; (2)...
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– Evidence from Tunisia
The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of the inefficient functioning of the Tunisian labour market. The study takes advantage of the recent development in the stochastic frontier techniques and estimates, the matching function for Tunisia using disaggregated data.We include control...
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– Comparative Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa
This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) compared to non-SSA, based on an unbalanced panel of 86 countries over 1977–2004. For all three measures of poverty – headcount, gap, and squared gap –...
Many developing and transition countries have considerable regional variation in average household income, poverty, and in health and educational status. National human development indicators can therefore mislead policy-makers when large regional disparities exist. This project will investigate the...
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– Theory and Evidence from India
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Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
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– A Journey Through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness
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Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
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– Regression-based Decomposition Using Household Data
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Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
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