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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...

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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)

Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005

of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …

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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam

Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005

in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

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The changing nature of work and earnings inequality in China

Xing, Chunbing - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

This paper examines the evolution of China's industrial and occupational structure in the last two decades and its impact on wage inequality. We find that non-routine cognitive and interpersonal tasks have increased, while routine cognitive tasks first increased and then declined. Occupation...

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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as...

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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries : a study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Arndt, Channing (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

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Great Gatsby and the Global South : intergenerational mobility, income inequality, and development

Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2023

In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an important topic for research with consequences for policy. This 'Element' surveys the area, conceptually and empirically.

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Measuring vulnerability : the director's cut

Ligon, Ethan (contributor); Schechter, Laura (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Measuring vulnerability to poverty

Kamanou, Gisele (contributor); Morduch, Jonathan (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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