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In a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, 'Forced migration and inequality', one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and … revisit the contributions of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies special issue that resulted from that earlier project …
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and …
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migration and multidimensional poverty by applying inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA). We find that …Internal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their … country. This study describes Mozambique's most common migration patterns from 1992 until 2017 using data from three …
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poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings …Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much …
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on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanatory …
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We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … expenditure is more unequally distributed than income in urban areas. China has a much stronger correlation in individual ranks …, but income inequality much lower. This results partially from differences in population composition, such as China being …
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population has changed over time by focusing on key socioeconomic indicators, such as poverty rates and levels of education …, occupation, and income. Third, we seek to explain what enables Vietnamese refugees and their children to overcome initial …
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. These two migration streams would converge when Germany reunified in 1990. Drawing on mixed qualitative methods, this paper … and contract workers in Germany. By comparing two migration streams from the same country of origin that experienced …
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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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