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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
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The use of social accountability mechanisms by Syrian diaspora organizations providing aid in the Syrian crisis
Abdel-Samad, Mounah; Flanigan, Shawn Teresa - 2018
This paper presents data from a study of Syrian diaspora organizations providing assistance to conflict-affected Syrians in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Using interview data from leaders in three Syrian diaspora non-profit organizations, this paper examines the social mechanisms...
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Horizontal inequality and data challenges
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development....
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The education backlash : how assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict
Bozçağa, Tuğba; Cansunar, Asli - 2023
Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of heightened threat of ethnic mobilization. This study...
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The international circulation of elites : knowledge, entrepreneurial and political
Solimano, Andrés; Avanzini, Diego - 2010
affect international development. -- International migration ; entrepreneurial ; political migrants ; talent mobility …
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Poverty and ethnicity among black South Africans
Gradín, Carlos - 2014
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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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system
Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022
poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … systems offers important lessons on how poverty relief can further human development and enhance agency. Future reformers can …
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Group-based inequalities : the case of Viet Nam
Hoai, Dang Thi Thu - 2017
welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …
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Self-assessed versus statistical evidence of labour market discrimination : the case of indigenous Australians
Duncan, Alan S.; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar - 2016
We assess the relative importance of statistical residual-based measures of discrimination in determining indigenous Australians' perceptions of discrimination in the labour market. We find that statistical measures are largely unrelated to discrimination reports among males and negatively...
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Earnings polarization, ethnicity, and regional perspective in Indonesia
Muttaqien, Arip; Sologon, Denisa; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2018
more than 600 ethnic groups living across some 17 thousand islands and a history of ethnic conflicts in several regions …
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