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Agricultural incomes and rural poverty : an analysis at crop - state level in India
Acharya, Acharya, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730839
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Agricultural incomes and rural poverty : an analysis at crop - state level in India
ACHARYA, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005232839
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730640
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Spatial inequalities explained: evidence from Burkina Faso
Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005589950
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To what extent can disparities in compositional and structural factors account for the gender gap in unemployment in the urban areas of Kenya?
Wamuthenya, Wambui Rose - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2010
of being unemployed and to examine why women are more vulnerable to unemployment than men are. Using a decomposition … decomposition estimates display that for both periods, gender gaps in unemployment are overwhelmingly, about 81 to 84 per cent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094047
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Good institutions and fair trade: a road map to local and global social harmony.
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442179
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149234
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094038
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095140
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Food security and 'regimes of accumulation' : the case of Argentina
Teubal, Teubal, M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837469