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The Fruit of the Vine? An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony

Fourie, Johan; von Fintel, Dieter - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

society. Comparative analysis reveals that certain endowments exist in societies that experience a ‘persistence of inequality …-tropical products’ to contribute to the rise and persistence of an elite, and consequently inequality. The focus shifts to the …

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Irregular Urbanization as a Catalyst for Radical Social Mobilization: The Case of the Housing Movements of São Paulo

Earle, Lucy - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

city’s sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …

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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early/mid-1990s when growth in …

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Utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000.11: Welfare improvements in a changing economic landscape

Stifel, David; Woldehanna, Tassew - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

We use Arndt and Simler.s utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the decade, and in

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Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi.s poverty puzzle

Pauw, Karl; Beck, Ulrik; Mussa, Richard - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Disappointment was widespread when rapid economic growth since 2005, coupled with a smallholder-targeted fertilizer subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point decline in nat

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Shipping around the Malthusian trap

Grimm, Michael; Wetta, Claude; Nikiema, Aude - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Burkina Faso has experienced quite significant aggregate growth over the past two decades, but that growth has not been transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth combin

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Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda: A broad perspective

Verpoorten, Marijke - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …

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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa: Evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania

Houngbonon, Georges Vivien; Bauer, Arthur; Ndiaye, Abdoulaye - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption

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Poverty, inequality, and prices in post-apartheid South Africa

Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Oosthuizen, Morne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This …Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little …

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Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10: Snapshots in the presence of multiple economy-wide shocks

Stifel, David; Razafimanantena, Tiaray; Rakotomanana, Faly - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

We use Arndt and Simler.s (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Because two major political crises occurred between the survey periods, the snapshots of national poverty ri

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