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Doubling down: National oil companies as instruments of risk and reward
Heller, Patrick R. P. - 2017
National oil companies tend to elicit unequivocal views. To political leaders within petroleum-producing countries, they often represent a sine qua non of a strategy capable of delivering long-term benefits to citizens. To many international analysts and donors, they represent vestiges of an...
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Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989-2014
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lustig, Nora; Scott, John - 2018
Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to...
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Fiscal policy, inequality, and the poor in the developing world
Lustig, Nora - 2016
Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in 25 countries for around 2010. Success in fiscal redistribution is driven primarily by redistributive effort (share of social spending to GDP in each country) and the extent to...
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Can 'good' social mobility news be 'bad' and vice versa?: Measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls
Iversen, Vegard - 2020
Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries perform in analysis of low-income settings. Following brief, selective reviews of the axiomatic and econometric literatures, three mobility concepts illustrate how properties that...
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The politics of inequality and redistribution in Latin America's post-adjustment era
Roberts, Kenneth M. - 2012
Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America's political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below. These shifts helped to 'repoliticize' inequality and return...
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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria: A retrospective approach for research enquiry
Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013
This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319941
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The Impacts of the Food, Fuel and Financial Crises on Households in Nigeria : A Retrospective Approach for Research Enquiry
Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño‐Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013
This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157409
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Inequality and the changing nature of work in Peru
Ballon, Paola; Dávalos, Jorge - 2020
This paper identifies the socioeconomic drivers of earnings inequality in Peru in the period 2004-18. Using the ENAHO household surveys and data on routine task content of occupations, we apply inequality decomposition methods to the real earnings distribution, its quantiles, and the Gini index....
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Cities of youth: Post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality
Hansen, Karen Tranberg - 2014
Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of … economic, political, and spatial processes that are affecting urban livelihoods in the region, facilitating or hindering youth …
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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oketch, Moses - 2014
in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …
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