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The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in Mozambique

Barletta, Giulia; Castigo, Finório; Egger, Eva-Maria; … - 2021

This study assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty and inequality, we rely on macroeconomic impacts estimated by Betho...

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Prioritizing rural investments in Africa: A hybrid evaluation approach applied to Uganda

Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - 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 experimenting ex ante with alternative investment...

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The political economy of food price policy: The case study of India

Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok - 2013

India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007-08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to India's ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of G8 countries' call to avert economic recession, coupled...

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Energy Impoverishment: Addressing Capitalism's New Driver of Inequality

Chester, Lynne - In: Journal of Economic Issues 48 (2014) 2, pp. 395-404

A rapidly growing number of households are suffering from energy impoverishment caused by escalating electricity prices, low income, and poor housing energy efficiency. Many households are experiencing considerable hardship in paying energy bills. This manifestation of inequality has followed...

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Approaching an investigation of multi-dimensional inequality through the lenses of variety in models of capitalism

Antonelli, Gilberto; Calia, Pinuccia Pasqualina; … - 2014

why the models of capitalism theory is relevant for studying multidimensional inequality. These paragraphs emphasise that … the model of capitalism which characterises a specific country and this, in turn, affects the level and the dynamics of … capitalism and inequality. Besides, refining Amable's analysis (2003), we provide empirical evidence on the relationship between …

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