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Spatial inequalities explained: evidence from Burkina Faso

Grimm, Michael; Gräb, Gräb, J. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...

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Spatial inequalities explained: evidence from Burkina Faso

Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

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Socio-economic determinants of road traffic accident fatalities in low and middle income countries

Grimm, Michael; Treibich, Treibich, C. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010

In low and middle income countries road traffic accident fatalities will become in the near future one of the three major causes of death. Given that in particular the active population accounts for these fatalities, the potential economic implications are large, on the micro and the macro...

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Laos: a state coordinated frontier economy

Andriesse, Andriesse, E. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2011

continuation of this variety of capitalism is likely to result in excessive inequality and severe environmental degradation. The …

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Gender trends in developing countries during financial crises

van Staveren, Irene - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010

The paper looks at several financial crises in the past: the Asian financial crisis, the Brazilian, Argentine and Turkish financial crises, around the turn of the last century. Data are analyzed for a 10-year period around these crises. The data include gender indicators (mostly female-male...

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Good Institutions and Fair Trade

Mamoon, Dawood - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

The paper examines how legal, economic, political and social institutions fare with different measures of inequality in …, political and social. Among legal institutions, rule of law and control for corruption have a stronger impact on inequality than … it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities …

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