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This paper argues that new computer, smartphone, and universal ID technologies are reducing the incentives for political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local brokers to credit-claim for better service delivery and...
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Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and...
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This paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic panels constructed from cross-section data. We echo earlier...
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This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …
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This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in … growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to … each other? Our contribution is an in-depth study of the multi-pronged growth-employment-poverty nexus based on a large …
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This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in … growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to … each other? Our contribution is an in-depth study of the multi-pronged growth–employment–poverty nexus based on a large …
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