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Discussion Sessions Coupled with Microfinancing May Enhance the Roles of Women in Household Decision-Making in Burundi
Ferrari, Giulia; Iyengar, Radha - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in … in household authority, with the Burundi study showing statistical significance. In South Africa there was a large …, albeit short lived decrease in domestic violence. In Burundi there was small reduction but trend suggest a longer duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694936
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Left, Right, Left: Income and Political Dynamics in Transition Economies
Carter, Michael; Morrow, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. While the implications of upward mobility for the political preferences of forward-looking voters have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009398284
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Wage Inequality,Technology and Trade: 21st Century Evidence
Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skill distribution in recent decades. There have been sharp increases in wage inequality across the OECD, beginning with the US and UK at the end of the 1970s. A good fraction of this inequality growth is due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700450
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Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367444
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Giant oilfields and civil conflict
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549058