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Affirmative action around the world: Insights from a new dataset (update)
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kim, Min J.; Schotte, Simone; … - 2024
Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach to addressing group-based inequalities. It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in the areas of, for instance, university enrolment, public employment, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045942
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Exploring economic support networks amidst racial inequality in Namibia
Oppel, Annalena - 2021
inequality as a social dynamic within the space of support and evaluate whether providing worseoff others corresponds to former … discriminatory practices under the apartheid regime. My results suggest that inequality has normalized a sense of support as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651173
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Promoting women's economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection
Otobe, Naoko - 2014
The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420607
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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Brück, Tilman; Naudé, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - 2013
entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319889
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Halving poverty in South Africa: Growth and distributional aspects ; distributional implications of halving poverty in South Africa
Tregenna, Fiona - 2011
The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article specifies government's stated target of halving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280230
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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data
Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010
effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333036
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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization
Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - 2011
requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be a nuanced partnership between entrepreneurs and the state. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280061
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Entrepreneurial activity and civil war in Colombia: Exploring the mutual determinants between armed conflict and the private sector
Rettberg, Angelika; Leiteritz, Ralf; Nasi, Carlo - 2010
As elsewhere, the Colombian private sector has been accused of promoting or profiting from violence in the country. However, the private sector's role in the armed conflict and the impact of conflict on entrepreneurial activity vary, as reflected by differences in political activism, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280200
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Entrepreneurship and human development: A capability approach
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2010
that even when entrepreneurship is valued, entrepreneurs may often not match their ideas with suitable opportunities …We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280225
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Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid
Gradín Lago, Carlos Manuel - 2017
sustained or significant desegregation. Occupations remain highly segmented by race, with blacks disproportionally holding low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688568