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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria: A retrospective approach for research enquiry
Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Nino-Zarazua, Miguel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757081
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Distributional Impact of Globalization-Induced Migration: Evidence from a Nigerian Village
Onyeiwu, Steve; Polimeni, Raluca Iorgulescu; Polimeni, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
One of the contentious issues about the globalization process is the mechanism by which globalization affects poverty … and inequality. This paper explores one of the various strands of the globalization?inequality?poverty nexus. Using … of Owerri) in Southeast Nigeria, the paper investigates whether individuals who migrate from the village to take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001277
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Gender and Education as Determinants of Household Poverty in Nigeria
Okojie, Christiana E.E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031723
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
poverty reducti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854458
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John; Shimeles, Abebe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854479
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Redistribution without Structural Change in Ecuador: Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
Ponce, Juan; Vos, Rob - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a .new leftist. government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854507
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The economics of malaria in Africa
Berthelemy, Jean-Claude; Thuilliez, Josselin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854525
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On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices
Subramanian, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854528
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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa: A hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda
Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a .hybrid. approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimen
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854530