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The effect of Hukou registration policy on rural-to-urban migrants' health
Bengoa, Marta; Rick, Christopher - 2018
Access to social services in China is connected to a system of household registration (Hukou system) determined by place of origin with difficult geographical transferability. As a consequence, a vast majority of rural-to-urban migrants do not have access to public health services in urban...
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The political economy of women's empowerment policies in India: Understanding it through the beginning and end of the Mahila Samakhya programme
Jha, Jyotsna; Menon, Niveditha; Ghatak, Neha - 2022
This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re-examination of the context of both the genesis and closure of a major programme, Mahila Samakhya. Mahila Samakhya, which embodied feminist philosophy and pedagogy, started in 1987 with the...
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Programme-135: Addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam
2022
Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities … standards. The programme addresses typical causes of poverty among ethnic minorities and inequality between these groups and the … provide an overview of the programme and examine the drivers of its success in reducing poverty and bridging the majority …
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Tax and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa: Beyond accountability and responsiveness
Adegboye, Alex; Tagem, Abrams M. E. - 2023
This paper establishes how accountability quality might mediate the effect of tax revenue on sustainable development in 41 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1990-2019. The empirical evidence is based on three empirical strategies: generalized method of moments, instrumental variable...
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Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - 2016
There are several countries who have responded to concerns regarding historically disadvantaged groups, particularly ethnic and racial minorities and women, with not only anti-discrimination legislation, but also affirmative action policies. Although these policies are seemingly well...
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Informality, growth, and development in Africa
Benjamin, Nancy; Mbaye, Ahmadou Aly - 2014
The informal sector makes up an overwhelming share of both gross domestic product and total employment in Africa. In this paper, we lay out some of the basic characteristics of the informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa, relevant institutions, and development issues. Proposed policy approaches...
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Fiscal pressure of migration & horizontal fiscal inequality: Evidence from Indian experience
Chakraborty, Pinaki; Garg, Shatakshi - 2018
This paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states. Econometric estimation suggests that level of vertical federal transfers and its horizontal...
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Globalizing households and multi-ethnic community building in Japan
Ishii, Chihiro - 2010
The East Asian countries are currently experiencing declining fertility rates and aging of their populations. The demographic transition is beginning to affect various societal functions, and increasing international migrants are becoming one of the responses to the transition, despite the...
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Ecuador country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Uruguay country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …
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