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Starting on 18 October 2019, Chile experienced the largest mass protests in its history. The movement was immensely …
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The paper analyzes the need for structural change in the Haitian economy, an economy where the majority make their living in agriculture – a sector characterized by a severe erosion problem. It is argued that tourism does not offer any solution, other than possibly in the long run. The only...
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, estimated via linear programming, and illustrated with the cases of Chile and Mexico over the 1950-2000 period. The results show …
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secondary level between 1988-2000, and confirms the inequality that exists in the access to education at post-primary level … among secondary school teachers also points toward inequality in the access to quality education that impairs the ability of …
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results suggest that there is room for harmonization of economic environments across countries regarding decreasing inequality …
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This paper provides an overview of the modern perspective on the relationship between inequality and economic …
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dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial …
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countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …
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Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but also education, leisure, the stock of knowledge and the quality of the … hand, the stock of knowledge is twice as large, and education is four times as large. So if the true social welfare index … intensive ones, like knowledge, education, and leisure. …
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-specific dimensions, indicators, weights and cut-offs. This paper analyses the 2013 round of the multidimensional poverty and inequality …
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