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Tunisia's Development Experience: A Success Story?

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

caused fertility to decline significantly are a hallmark of Tunisia.s development strategy. This paper reviews Tunisia …

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Culture and the Fertility Transition in India

Krishnan, Pramila - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries

Brainerd, Elizabeth - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe—below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and … increasing out-of-wedlock birthrates, characterize many countries formerly distinguished by replacement-level fertility and early …

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A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education

Fielding, David; McGillivray, Mark; Torres, Sebastian - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Women.s empowerment: what works and why?

Cornwall, Andrea - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Revisiting foundational feminist work on the concept of empowerment from the 1980s and 1990s, this paper draws on the findings of a multi-country research programme, .Pathways of Women.s Empowerment., to explore pathways of positive change in women.s live

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The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America.s Post-Adjustment Era

Roberts, Kenneth M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America.s political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below. These shifts helped to .repoliticize. inequality and return...

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Three Decades of Neoliberal Economics in Chile: Achievements, Failures and Dilemmas

Solimano, Andres - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth patterns have serious impacts on the environment, natural...

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Linkages between Pro-Poor Growth, Social Programmes and Labour Market: The Recent Brazilian Experience

Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its globalization process, focusing on the role played by the labour market and social programmes. Methodologically, the paper makes two contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of...

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Social Funds in Stabilization and Adjustment Programmes.

Cornia, G.A. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1999

The Adjustment-related Social Funds (SFs) have been introduced in more than 70 countries. They conted in limites resources. The SFs did not have a effect on the total social expenditure/GDP ratio, as in most cases the rise of the latter during the years of execution of the SFs was less than the...

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A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life

Lora, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems of monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective and subjective information and attempt to cover a wide variety of topics. This paper introduces a simple method that takes advantage of both types...

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