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The political economy of food price policy in Egypt
Ghoneim, Ahmed Farouk - 2012
The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on … from international to domestic prices. The complexity of food price policy issues and their entanglement with poverty …, agricultural, and economic policies in Egypt together with the structural aspects of the food subsidy policies are discussed and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319766
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343252
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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oketch, Moses - 2014
examine how policies have shifted over time, what has worked for technical, vocational education, and training and what has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352729
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COVID-19: Mortality, future years lost, and demographic structure. Italy and Kenya compared
Bell, Clive - 2020
COVID-19 causes extremely high mortality among the old. This motivates a comparison of the losses of future lifetime years and future lifetime years of work ensuing from a hypothetical 25,000 excess deaths in Italy, whose affluent population is one of the world's oldest, with those in Kenya,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424047
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Socioeconomic and cultural drivers of women's formal work in rural Ghana
Groß, Elena; Frempong, Raymond Boadi - 2021
We study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment in a subsistence agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour. We use a set of quantitative and qualitative data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424186
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Ethnic entrepreneurs and collective violence: Assessing spatial variations in anti-Chinese rioting within Jakarta during the May 1998 riots
Weeraratne, Suranjan - 2010
The concept of scapegoating is frequently used to explain how opportunistic elites attempt to deflect blame onto vulnerable ethnic minorities, particularly during times of social turmoil. However, the notion of scapegoating is undertheorized in the conflict literature and the question of why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280237
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Do labour market conditions affect the extent of gender discrimination?
Arceo, Eva; Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - 2016
The market environment in which discriminatory firms operate may be a relevant determinant of their extent of discrimination. In this paper we aim at analysing the effect of local labour market conditions on a firm's decision to discriminate. We use a direct measure of discrimination using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532409
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Inequality and the generational economy: Race-disaggregated National Transfer Accounts for South Africa, 2015
Oosthuizen, Morné - 2019
Differences in the economic lifecycle between countries at different levels of development suggest that there may be differences between sub-populations within countries, particularly where the sub-populations have different levels of income. Given stark inequalities by race in South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146513
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On the dynamics of multidimensional chronic pover
Garcia-Diaz, Rocio; Prudencio, Daniel - 2015
Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418556
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What works to improve the quality of student learning in developing countries?
Masino, Serena; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2015
We conducted a systematic review to identify policy interventions that improve education quality and student learning in developing countries. Relying on a theory of change typology, we highlight three main drivers of change of education quality: first, supply-side capability interventions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418588