The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …

find inequality has increased post democracy in Nigeria, more so among women than men. …There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null …

Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clear consensus on the dimension … using survey data from Nigeria between 1996-1999. Both descriptive and econometric analysis are used to test the null … hypothesis that there are no significant regional differences in labor market outcomes in Nigeria. The results are surprising …

rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world …

Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly … less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …

In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new … analysis show that there is a significant relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality. Globalisation … leads to poverty reduction and it reduces income inequality. The relationship between globalisation and poverty remains …

entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …

exploitation to occur, we find that agent compliance is significantly lower for exploitative principals who use high … from them. To corroborate our interpretation of the results we show that a surveyed "exploitation aversion" scale moderates … this effect. Exploitation averse participants are less likely to comply with the incentives than exploitation tolerant …

claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic …